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True Newsroom Diversity Must Account for Disability Status, Too

True Newsroom Diversity Must Account for Disability Status, Too

Disabled people make up 20% of the U.S. population but take up little space on mastheads and in coverage. Why?
February 17, 2021
The Complexity of Reporting on Age, Race, and the Covid-19 Vaccine

The Complexity of Reporting on Age, Race, and the Covid-19 Vaccine

Something journalists need to better convey to our audiences: Because of demographic realities, prioritizing age in Covid-19 vaccination efforts is akin to prioritizing white Americans.White people live longer on average…
February 16, 2021
Examining the Future of the American Art Critic

Examining the Future of the American Art Critic

With her documentary “Out of the Picture,” Mary Louise Schumacher, NF ’17, hopes to prompt national conversation about art criticism and how meaning gets made in the 21st century:When I…
February 12, 2021
Criminal Justice Reporter Wesley Lowery Asks, What if the Process Itself is Unfair?

Criminal Justice Reporter Wesley Lowery Asks, What if the Process Itself is Unfair?

Wesley Lowery was just 25 when The Washington Post won a Pulitzer for the newspaper’s “Fatal Force” project in 2016. Lowery was the driving force behind the project, a database…
February 10, 2021
Public Exchanges on Race Are Healthy for News Outlets and Audiences

Public Exchanges on Race Are Healthy for News Outlets and Audiences

I’ve been stuck on the discussion about the resignation of New York Times science reporter Donald McNeil Jr. for the past few days. I don’t have a firm opinion on…
February 9, 2021
4 Ways to Increase the Diversity of Your Sources

4 Ways to Increase the Diversity of Your Sources

Understanding the barriers to increasing source diversity is key to overcoming them
February 8, 2021
Spanning Beats, Environmental Justice Reporting Influences Every Story

Spanning Beats, Environmental Justice Reporting Influences Every Story

By connecting systemic inequities to environmental harms, environmental justice reporting covers everything from race and housing to healthcare and immigration
February 3, 2021
The New Yorker’s Evan Osnos: “Approach Washington with a Healthy Degree of Alarm”

The New Yorker’s Evan Osnos: “Approach Washington with a Healthy Degree of Alarm”

Evan Osnos is a staff writer covering politics and foreign affairs at The New Yorker and the author of “Joe Biden: The Life, the Run, and What Matters Now” (Scribner,…
February 2, 2021
Spurred by Black Lives Matter, Coverage of Police Violence Is Changing

Spurred by Black Lives Matter, Coverage of Police Violence Is Changing

Newsrooms are moving away from privileging police accounts over those of police violence victims
January 28, 2021
To Change Its Future, The Kansas City Star Examined Its Racist Past

To Change Its Future, The Kansas City Star Examined Its Racist Past

“The Truth in Black and White” forced the newsroom to look inward and to do journalism differently
January 26, 2021