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My name is Jason Lanning. I am a news reporter from Tampa, Florida. If you have discovered this website, there is a reason you are here!  Back in June 2009 I was involved in a car accident.  It was an accident blown out of proportion by media with false and damaging allegations that could have ended my career....(get the whole story)

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(4/3/12 jasonlanning.com) When it comes to Ethics in the News, no current story better illustrates what can go wrong in media than coverage of the Trayvon Martin case.  RTDNA Speaks out here...

(12/20/11 jasonlanning.com) When the economy started tanking in 2008, it wasn't just homeowners that were put out on the street. Journalists were too, by the thousands.  Michael Mandel estimated on Bloomberg Business Week in September 2011 that roughly 20,000 journalists were lost in just one year... (continue reading)

BIG NEWS ON OUR EFFORTS!

By Jason Lanning

(1/14/12) When this website launched back in November '11 we had a big first goal. We needed to get high on search engines under the key search term "Jason Lanning". When you typed my name into Google previously, the only thing you'd find were dated articles with false, damaging and one-sided information concerning an accident I was involved in back in June 2009.  What's the exciting news?

(1/5/2012 jasonlanning.com) I was a young reporter eager to break the story.  The tip came into my work email and I was ready.  A man that lived in an apartment complex wrote to me that for months he had seen several sheriff's office deputies sitting in the back parking lot of a church in his neighborhood.  Sounds like a great story, right?  It was, but for all the wrong reasons... (read more)