Features

Portraying Poverty in the Face of Newsroom Pressures

Demand More Time. Agitate for More Space. And Revisit the Subject Often.

Why Identify Welfare Recipients or Quote Incorrect Grammar?

At The Mountain Eagle newspaper we do not use photographs of welfare recipients as welfare recipients. It’s hard enough to have to be one without having to face the prospect…

In the Midst of Poverty, People’s Stories are Hard to Tell

Small Staffs, Lack of Resources, and Families’ Fear of Reprisals Add to Difficulties in Coverage

On-Line Journalism: Frustrations Along the Road to the Future

I knocked on the coach’s office door in the visitor’s clubhouse at Durham Bulls Athletic Park.“Come in,” said Stump Merrill, the gruff manager of the Columbus (Ohio) “While in the…

Spring 1999: Introduction

In asking young journalists to write about their experiences, what we wanted to provide was a forum in which they could express their views, concerns and ideas about the way…

Children’s Exposure to Violence

In therapy sessions, children use art to describe their lives. “Children in a Violent Society,” Edited by Joy D. Osofsky, The Guilford Press.Each year in our country at least three…

Mapping Children’s Roadway to Violence: The Early Years

“I went to Vermont and showed Ernie this story, as it appeared in the magazine. I started from the back and showed him the last picture with his mom. She’s…

Interview with Photographer Donna Ferrato

“This is, by far, the most powerful picture I’ve ever taken because it shows exactly how a child feels when they see their mother being beaten. “The boy is saying…

Winter 1998: Children and Violence Introduction

In this edition, we examine ways in which we report on children and violence. We travel to the sites of the five recent and highly publicized school shootings, then journey…

Girls and Juvenile Violence

Stories Rarely Told