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Come join Sally Lehrman, a professor and journalist who writes regularly on race, gender and identity issues and Maynard Institute President Dori J. Maynard as we talk about the best and worst of media coverage and diversity. Add comments and give us your thoughts.
Come join Sally Lehrman, a professor and journalist who writes regularly on race, gender and identity issues and Maynard Institute President Dori J. Maynard as we talk about the best and worst of media coverage and diversity. Add comments and give us your thoughts.
BLACK HISTORY MONTH
The Maynard Institute gears up for its coming celebration of Black History Month
Much of today's media coverage breaks the country into black and white, North and South, male and female. Doing so fails to capture the complexity of American life that journalists need to portray.
Based on the late Robert C. Maynard's belief that the five fault lines of race, class, gender, generation and geography are the most enduring forces shaping lives, experiences and social tensions in this country, the Maynard Institute's Fault Lines framework helps journalists build a more diverse source list, have more voices in stories and determine which fault lines are at work in complex issues.
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Based on the late Robert C. Maynard's belief that the five fault lines of race, class, gender, generation and geography are the most enduring forces shaping lives, experiences and social tensions in this country, the Maynard Institute's Fault Lines framework helps journalists build a more diverse source list, have more voices in stories and determine which fault lines are at work in complex issues.
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Black History Month and Beyond documents and preserves the stories of those courageous African American journalists who broke into general circulation media during the turbulent 1960s and 1970s. [more...]

Covering armed Nigerians, observer feels powerless; NPR piece on soldier clashes with Navajo taboos; Philly's Cesar Aldama named news director in Miami; Dan Rather explains "watermelon" remark; Virginia paper moving copy editing to Chicago; Journal-isms gets an honor, asks readers' feedback (3/10/10)
At 17.6% for black men, president's strategy challenged; writers push Obama on black unemployment; New Yorker offers interactive black history; Pittsburgh police upset by cartoon on teen's beating; Janice Min says that at home, money isn't power; tea partyers; "America's black patriots"; Juan Gonzalez warns about re-engineering of cities (2/12/10)
SOME YEARS my father's birthday fell on Father's Day. In many ways, that was appropriate. For all of his professional success, I think what gave my father the most profound sense of joy was being a dad.
The U.S. Senate finally turned aside an attempt to add a citizenship question to the upcoming 2010 Census.
When I asked a group of college journalism students to name
African-American journalism pioneers, names such as Ed Bradley, Bryant
Gumbel and Oprah Winfrey came quickly.
Let’s face it: even in the “good old days” when mainstream local news
media were flush with advertising revenue, covering poor communities
was never a consistent priority. Newspapers, with their larger
newsgathering staffs, have historically done a better job than local TV
news, but these days there isn’t much difference. News about poor
communities is most often driven by press releases and events such as
violent crime, rather than a larger context for what everyday life is
like in these neighborhoods.
The Oakland Tribune has a new community project that teaches West
Oakland residents to write stories about their neighborhoods. The
program is called "Oakland Voices." Its goal is to empower West Oakland
residents with skills and tools to go into their neighborhoods and
report on issues, people, and ideas they think are important. It will
be based at the The West Oakland Public Library's Community Media
Access Center.
If all I knew about African Americans was what I learned from the media, I might sound like Rush Limbaugh too.
Ms. Mansoor, are you a terrorist?
Ms. Mansoor is quiet in class.
Ms. Mansoor comes from an Arab country.
She is technically an “ESL Student” at our University. That means, she is not yet 100 percent fluid in her ability to write the English required of a university-level student of Freshman Rhetoric&Composition.
“No,” she says -- quietly.
But Ms. Mansoor – you’re a Muslim – right?
“Yes,” she says.
The nation seems to be stumbling toward some kind of “health care
reform” but when the dust settles I can’t help but wondering if all
Americans will be able to afford health insurance, an issue that seems
to be missing from the avalanche coverage.







