No doubt you’ve heard it before — the complaint that reporters do a bad job covering race and ethnicity. It’s not always easy to hear, but sometimes it’s true.

So, when more than two dozen experts met at the University… Read more

How often should journalists write about race? “Every day,” says Tammy Johnson, director of strategic partnerships at the Applied Research Center (ARC) in Oakland, Calif. “How many stories?” pressed a student at Santa Clara University, where Johnson was… Read more

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By Sally Lehrman

Does your organization identify alleged criminals by race? There seems to be a fresh push to do so, based on the view that omitting race is “politically correct silliness,” as someone e-mailed me. Race is always… Read more

By Sally Lehrman

Wouldn’t you love to have an audience that is “passionate,” “committed” and “engaged”? That’s the way Kay Madati and Lynette Clemetson describe the people who visit their Web sites, who discuss, comment and meet up… Read more

Por Sally Lehrman

Cuando
reportamos sobre “hispanos” o “latinos.” de quién realmente estamos hablando? Roberto Suro piensa que los periodistas podrían no tener
una idea clara.

Suro, un
profesor de la University of… Read more

By Sally Lehrman

When we report about “Hispanics” or “Latinos,” who are we really talking about? Roberto Suro, for one, thinks journalists may not have a clear idea.

Suro, a professor… Read more

By Sally Lehrman

Last week, Sen. Barack Obama invited the nation to a high-level conversation about race. Are we up to it? As journalists, we generally sit on the sidelines and observe.… Read more

Editor’s note:  This piece was originally published by the Institute for Justice and Journalism. 

The screen showed two tables, one placed horizontally and one vertically. Anyone in the room could see — the vertical piece… Read more