Author

Amy Alexander

@AmyAlex63

<a href="http://www.amyalexanderink.com/">Amy Alexander</a>, a Nieman affiliate in 1996, is author of several books, including "<a href="http://www.beacon.org/productdetails.cfm?PC=1402">Lay My Burden Down: Suicide and the Mental Health Crisis Among African-Americans</a>," coauthored with Dr. Alvin F. Poussaint. "<a href="http://www.beacon.org/productdetails.cfm?PC=2209">Uncovering Race: A Black Journalist's Story of Reporting and Reinvention</a>" published in October 2011 by Beacon Press.

What Often Goes Unsaid

The racial dynamic of what happens inside a newsroom is ‘an elusive if contentious subject that seldom rises to become a topic of media forums or workshops—except when minority journalists…