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‘Do these labels — “health disparities” and “the achievement gap" — create a more comfortable way for us to talk about contemporary impacts of race?’

This list of books, articles and Web sites has been compiled by Carl Sessions Stepp, a former assigning editor and now journalism professor at the University of Maryland. Books About…

Whether editors’ training takes place in a single newsroom or as a regional gathering, its essential elements remain consistent.

A reporter looks for ways to merge coverage of the middle class and the poor.

‘I got the feeling that once welfare had been “reformed,” the news story was simply over.’

The unfortunate reality is that American journalists do not systematically or analytically cover the plight of the poor, the marginalized, the isolated, or the powerless. When we put together elaborate…

A journalist sets forth a reform proposal to alter the incentives and break apart the ‘mediaocracy.’

‘Then Joanna found her vision. It was crisp and clear. She made me see it, too.’

A teacher challenges his students ‘to devise a proposal for the protection of newsroom independence and integrity’ in a changing media environment.

‘We joke about how almost every day maintenance people seem to be assembling another desk.’