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Timeline: Milestones of the Black Press in the U.S.

Timeline: Milestones of the Black Press in the U.S.

The Black press has powered political action and lifted spirits as it chronicled achievements, aspirations, and challenges. Such was its power that some Southern towns banned the sale of Black…
July 14, 2020
Reimagining Latinx Representation in American Journalism 

Reimagining Latinx Representation in American Journalism 

I belong to a privileged group of journalists whose identities as Latinxs have always been an asset. Where the relationship between the newsroom and audience is unique.Before joining our digital news…
July 1, 2020
Refugee Journalists Bring Access to Stories that Would Otherwise Be Missed

Refugee Journalists Bring Access to Stories that Would Otherwise Be Missed

It all began with a Facebook post in early 2016. Hussin Satoof, a Syrian refugee living in rural Western Germany, appealed for help finding his nephew Ahmad. The 17-year-old, who…
June 18, 2020
George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and One Journalist’s Painfully Honest Self-Examination on Racism

George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and One Journalist’s Painfully Honest Self-Examination on Racism

last June, I traveled to Ghana for the first time. For most of my life, I wanted no connection to the dark continent. I had been convinced, by whom or…
May 29, 2020
Rappler's Maria Ressa Recommends How to Tame the Corrosive Effects of Social Media

Rappler’s Maria Ressa Recommends How to Tame the Corrosive Effects of Social Media

The facts of Maria Ressa’s career are impressive enough: Princeton cum laude, Fulbright Fellow, CNN bureau chief in Manila and Jakarta, CNN’s chief investigative reporter in Asia, author of two…
March 20, 2020
How Trans Journalists are Challenging—and Changing—Journalism

How Trans Journalists are Challenging—and Changing—Journalism

Kate Sosin and Nico Lang landed in Anchorage in March 2018 and got into a Lyft to their hotel. The Lyft driver asked what the pair was doing in town.“I…
August 15, 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
“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
“Have more faith and trust in the public to be able to digest challenging information and to actually be looking for that”

“Have more faith and trust in the public to be able to digest challenging information and to actually be looking for that”

Mother Jones, the 43-year-old San Francisco-based publication named for the intrepid activist Mary Harris Jones, has been reinvigorated since Monika Bauerlein and Clara Jeffery took over as co-editors in 2006.…
May 20, 2019
Why are Journalism Contests So Expensive to Enter?

Why are Journalism Contests So Expensive to Enter?

Winners of both the Peabody and Webby Awards were announced in recent weeks. To enter both competitions, assuming a freelancer only wants to enter a single category, will run upward…
May 2, 2019