Associated Press stylebook needs to step it up on language for covering the disabled community
By Zoe Norberg In the past several years, the Associated Press has added chapters ranging from social media to religion, and most recently, data journalism to the categorized section in the back of the AP Stylebook. Nevertheless, an in-depth chapter about the proper usage of disability language is absent from the stylebook––instead, this topic is […]
The New York Times talks about its own diversity. Shouldn’t everyone else?
The New York Times issued a press release in March 2018 noting its commitment to diversity – and backing it up with statistics. The nut graf: Over the past three years, representation of women has increased at every level of The Times. Over all, our employees are now evenly split between men and women. Women […]
Tom Brady, and why it’s best to leave 5-year-old children out of it
By Chris Roberts Kindergarten teachers [note]My wife taught them for most of her 26 years in the classroom.[/note] will tell you that their real job isn’t to teach math and the alphabet. The real job is teaching 5-year-olds that the world does not revolve around them. This is an important lesson for all of us, […]
Dove ad shows some dirty racism
By DE Harry A Dove Facebook advertisement went viral on social media this past Sunday, Oct. 8, 2017. The GIF displayed three women taking off their skin-colored shirts, revealing the next underneath. The transition from the black woman to the white woman made headlines. The company received backlash from viewers of the advertisement labeling it […]
Cartoonist fired for biting the hand that feeds his publication
A herd of media are writing about Rick Friday, who was fired from Farm News, a weekly publication of The Fort Dodge (Iowa) Messenger, after it published this cartoon pointing out that the CEOs of three men who run major farming-focused corporations earned a combined $53 million in 2015, as much as 2,129 Iowa farmers. […]
U.S. newsrooms mirror larger hierarchies of power
By Kendall Worman Newsrooms in the U.S. are not exactly the most diverse places when it comes to race. Is it possible for journalists to report objectively and holistically on race and minority issues when the journalists telling those stories don’t represent even a significant fraction of that demographic? According to The Atlantic a 2012 […]
What a class exercise taught me about my moral foundations
By Cara Walker Loyal. Fair. Caring. These are words most people would want to use to identify themselves. While the way we strive towards these attributes may seem almost subconscious at times, these characteristics are what many of us base our moral foundations upon, since we as a society have dubbed them all generally “good.” […]
Getting to the root of the problem: Journalism’s diversity problem
By Judah Martin When the California Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board met with adult film stars to decide on potential regulations for the industry in February 2016, The New York Times sent a white male reporter to cover the hearing. This decision was a mistake. Marveling at the fact that the “colorfully dressed” women were indeed […]
Sexism remains an issue in sports journalism in 2015
By Kevin Connell If you think you have it better off than me, there’s a good chance you’re wrong. Ask yourself, are you a male? Yes? No? If it’s the latter, then I don’t think it’s up for discussion. While I could probably use this test in most areas of our masculine culture and get […]