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Lewis Raven Wallace

@LewisPants

Lewis Raven Wallace, a 2020 Knight Visiting Nieman Fellow, is a freelance journalist and the writer and creator of “The View from Somewhere,” a book and podcast about the history of objectivity and justice in journalism. He is also co-director of Press On, a Southern media collective that advances justice through the practice of movement journalism.

Journalism Must Be an Act of Community-Building

Journalism Must Be an Act of Community-Building

Since the recent uprisings, we at Press On have been hearing and witnessing an increasing sense of urgency from journalism organizations and institutions to address their internal cultures and structures…
How Trans Journalists are Challenging—and Changing—Journalism

How Trans Journalists are Challenging—and Changing—Journalism

Trans reporters want more accurate and more sensitive coverage of trans issues and an end to false equivalency
“The way journalists interact with the communities we cover needs to change”

“The way journalists interact with the communities we cover needs to change”

I met Kate Geiger when I was doing a piece for NPR in 2013 about a former GM assembly plant Dayton. She’s worked there most of her career, and when…