A new organization is urging journalists to rethink how they report on gun violence, advocating for more empathetic, community-focused narratives and less sensationalism. The Association of Gun Violence Reporters, which launched publicly at the end of May, is the latest initiative aimed at reshaping media coverage amid America’s ongoing gun violence crisis. Backed by the…
For a decade now, I have been teaching journalism without officially having left the business. I keep one foot in journalism because I cannot imagine life without it, which sounds admittedly old-fashioned and also is something I cannot teach. Nor is it necessarily practical. The Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts journalism jobs will decline by…
I want to tell you a story about covering Congress in 2002 that doesn’t feel that long ago but my 18-year-old students at Columba College in Chicago would assure me otherwise. I wasn’t too much older than that when I started working for The Washington Post after graduate school. I was young, ambitious, serious and…