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Local news outlets should avoid false equivalency in reporting on Covid vaccine

January 19, 2021 by Jackie Spinner

A recent investigative report from NBC News highlighted the danger of our pursuit of false equivalency.  As the Covid-19 vaccines have started to roll out across America, anti-vaxxers are increasingly getting the kind of mainstream news attention they’ve long sought from local news. Outlets reporting on the vaccine have described the anti-vaccination activists as … [Read more...] about Local news outlets should avoid false equivalency in reporting on Covid vaccine

Founder of St. Louis Journalism Review reflects on history, promise of publication

December 22, 2020 by Charles L. Klotzer

The birth of the modern journalism reviews in the United States by working journalists, which flourished during the late 1960s through the early 1980s, is encapsulated in one paragraph by Ron Dorfman, co-organizer of the first - the Chicago Journalism Review, now long defunct. “The Chicago Journalism Review was a product of the local newspaper coverage of the Democratic … [Read more...] about Founder of St. Louis Journalism Review reflects on history, promise of publication

Covering the LGBTQ community, and its haters

December 8, 2020 by Christopher Heimerman

CHICAGO – Adam Rhodes, the social justice reporter for the Reader, said the importance of re-examining how we cover anti-LGBTQ groups is matched by a reckoning with how we cover the gay community. “The media industry has just started to give a shit about trans people,” he said. “We’ve been trained to not care about them.” The Southern Poverty Law Center tracked 70 … [Read more...] about Covering the LGBTQ community, and its haters

Community news outlets should build on high voter turnout in presidential election

November 17, 2020 by Jackie Spinner

More than 160 million people voted in the US presidential election, more than any other election in US history. About two-thirds of eligible voters cast ballots, the most since 1900 when more than 7 in 10 eligible American voters cast ballots, according to numbers from the United States Election Project. The youngest voters, ages 18 to 29, were key to the surge in … [Read more...] about Community news outlets should build on high voter turnout in presidential election

‘When you get between your readers and a liar, the liar loses’

November 10, 2020 by James Janega

This was always going to be a close election. America is bitterly divided, and both sides were awake this year. My Facebook feed is full of friends who can't understand how fellow Americans could be so blind to the stakes of what this election means for people other than themselves. I voted for social justice, for science and competency, for the environment, and for a chance … [Read more...] about ‘When you get between your readers and a liar, the liar loses’

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