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During Covid, Journalists Were Less Packaged. Let’s Keep It That Way

During Covid, Journalists Were Less Packaged. Let’s Keep It That Way

Every Tuesday and Thursday, back around 2002, I would wrap my son in warm clothes and tuck him into a covered car seat. Only his little face would be showing…
April 23, 2021
Futuro Media Group’s Maria Hinojosa: “It Was Out of Frustration that Futuro Was Built”

Futuro Media Group’s Maria Hinojosa: “It Was Out of Frustration that Futuro Was Built”

Journalist, entrepreneur, and 2020 I.F. Stone Award winner Maria Hinojosa has focused on issues facing historically marginalized communities throughout her three decades in the field. In 1992, she launched Latino USA,  one of…
April 22, 2021
Covid Relief Bill Throws Lifeline to Transform Local News

Covid Relief Bill Throws Lifeline to Transform Local News

With the passage of the $1.9 trillion Covid relief bill, Washington is not only providing help to families, schools, states, and local government; it is throwing a lifeline to the…
March 10, 2021
Spanning Beats, Environmental Justice Reporting Influences Every Story

Spanning Beats, Environmental Justice Reporting Influences Every Story

When Yvette Cabrera was reporting an investigative series about undocumented minors in Southern California’s juvenile justice system, who were being referred by the probation department to immigration authorities, she noticed…
February 3, 2021
Spurred by Black Lives Matter, Coverage of Police Violence Is Changing

Spurred by Black Lives Matter, Coverage of Police Violence Is Changing

What if the people storming the Capitol on January 6 had been Black?Newsrooms around the U.S. posed that question as largely white pro-Trump rioters and white supremacists, incited by the…
January 28, 2021
Don’t Exoticize Latino Voters; Report on Them as Americans

Don’t Exoticize Latino Voters; Report on Them as Americans

If a candidate for high office carries a group of voters by more than 30 points, when do we call it “a loss?” When that same candidate flips five states…
January 6, 2021
Cultural Competency and Why It Is Important to Covering Today’s America

Cultural Competency and Why It Is Important to Covering Today’s America

Farai Chideya is a journalist whose career has encompassed academia as well as broadcast and print journalism. She has worked at news organizations including NPR, CNN, ABC News, FiveThirtyEight, and…
December 16, 2020
Adding Diverse Perspectives to Newsroom Discussions

Adding Diverse Perspectives to Newsroom Discussions

With their Diversifying Journalism project, 2020 Nieman Fellows Ana Campoy, Jasmine Brown, and Selymar Colón are building databases of journalists and experts of color.At the time I was looking for…
November 16, 2020
It's Time to Cover Black Women as the Norm and Not the “Other”

It’s Time to Cover Black Women as the Norm and Not the “Other”

Though I’ve seen the way the media portray Black women evolve over time, I don’t think I’ve ever seen it done exactly right — or at least with the complexity…
October 30, 2020
Thought Leaders in Journalism on How to Meet the Challenges of This Moment

Thought Leaders in Journalism on How to Meet the Challenges of This Moment

Dear Journalism. Those two words formed the silent call I heard throughout the summer as anguish over George Floyd’s killing and an amplified Black Lives Matter movement forced a news…
September 23, 2020