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…
The state of rural journalism in the United States is parlous. Just how parlous is hard to tell. Journalism in rural America comprises mainly newspapers. Few rural radio stations cover local news in the way that newspapers do, and the few TV stations that can be classified as rural cover vast areas and are not…
NEWS ANALYSIS The Chicago Journalism Town Hall 2020 was, in some ways, a tale of 300 journalists enacting the parable of the blind men and the elephant. Held late last month in the Walnut Room of the Kimpton Allegro Hotel–famously the first place to serve alcohol in the minutes after Prohibition was repealed–the event was…