The return of professional sports to our television screens late this summer has come with renewed attention to the Black Lives Matter social justice movement. “Black Lives Matter” is painted on the court for every NBA game and the players are allowed to sport social justice slogans on the back of their jerseys. In Cincinnati,…
Four years after creating safety modules for journalism graduate students, Thomas Durkin, education program director at the James W. Foley Legacy Foundation, realized many undergraduates were out reporting in situations that required awareness and decided to take action. “We would talk to students. I remember being at the University of Michigan and a student told…
What pulls Gary Schwitzer from sleep at 3 a.m. these days is a mixture of personal and professional worries. Personally, Schwitzer is aggrieved by his battle with board members of his homeowners association, who he said have resisted his recommendation for residents in his Twin Cities condo complex to wear masks. Professionally, it’s journalism, specifically…
We are in the midst of a racial reckoning in our country that is more visible in some places than others, but in all places it is long overdue, including in our newsrooms. The mostly peaceful protests that have swept the nation following the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis by police feel like a…
Kathleen Greeson had been photographing her brother’s recovery from attempted suicide for nearly a year when the coronavirus pandemic confined them each to their homes in Tennessee and Georgia. In trying to find some way to continue her work from a distance, Greeson found the basis for her “Safe at Home” documentary series: video chat…