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Domestic Violence Is Not a 'Crime of Passion'

Domestic Violence Is Not a ‘Crime of Passion’

Reporters increasingly are covering abuse by intimate partners as an urgent social crisis, not a private family matter
August 21, 2019
Photographing Domestic Violence: Showing Uncomfortable Truths

Photographing Domestic Violence: Showing Uncomfortable Truths

Where is the line between respecting the needs of survivors or the deceased and the public’s need to know?
August 21, 2019
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
August 15, 2019

Political Polarization and the Press

What coverage of a 1951 Dartmouth-Princeton football game says about partisanship—and what journalism can do to address it
August 14, 2019
“When you see me on the news, you’ll know who I am”

“When you see me on the news, you’ll know who I am”

Journalists often withhold details of mass shooters and suicides to discourage copycats. Should that “strategic silence” be extended to extremist speech, misinformation, and propaganda, too?
July 30, 2019
Trump’s “Go Back” Tweet: This Is What Racism Looks Like

Trump’s “Go Back” Tweet: This Is What Racism Looks Like

White racism flourishes in the United States in America for a variety of reasons. Its historical roots stretch back hundreds of years, to even before there was officially a USA.…
July 17, 2019
View from Appalachia: Covering White Supremacy and White Nationalism

View from Appalachia: Covering White Supremacy and White Nationalism

Since 2016 there has been a dramatic rise in the number and activities of white nationalist groups in the U.S. The number of far-right white supremacist groups has increased by…
July 10, 2019
“Foreign” lands are not foreign in a globalized world—and it is time international news media realized this

“Foreign” lands are not foreign in a globalized world—and it is time international news media realized this

New outlets' decision to publish graphic photos of a terrorist attack in Kenya highlights a double standard in global coverage
July 3, 2019
Journalism and Libraries: “Both Exist to Support Strong, Well-informed Communities”

Journalism and Libraries: “Both Exist to Support Strong, Well-informed Communities”

How librarians are teaming up with journalists to promote media literacy, spur civic engagement, and even take on reporting projects
June 19, 2019
“What are you doing to ensure that you’re controlling the way you want to cover this presidential campaign?”

“What are you doing to ensure that you’re controlling the way you want to cover this presidential campaign?”

One of the biggest goals for the U.S. journalism industry in covering the 2020 election is to not repeat its mistakes from the 2016 election. So what steps are journalists…
June 14, 2019