This week (week of 9/19/05): A group blog from two sessions � USC Annenberg’s Institute for Justice and Journalism at Harvard and, at Poynter, a Writing About Race seminar. See more about each via links at bottom of right rail.
Here are a few things left in the notebook from Institute
for Justice and Journalism’s seminar at Harvard for its 2005 racial justice
fellows.
‘Covering Race Beyond the Box’: Newsrooms
are facing increasing financial… Read more
From Tim Porter: That the U.S. news media was under-reporting the extent of poverty in America before Hurricane Katrina brought it into everyone’s living-room is known.
That the news media attention span is about the length of a… Read more
From Claudia Meléndez
Salinas: Sally (Lehrman) makes a very good point when she implies that we,
as journalists, end up “covering up” instead of covering race. What I have to
say in my… Read more
From Tim Porter: Massachusetts Avenue connects the ivied walls of Harvard to the gates of a former urban Hell.
The avenue runs from Cambridge to Boston, bisecting the sprawling MIT campus, crossing the Charles River, skirting the… Read more
From Steve Montiel: Two discussions today on “Race, Class and Katrina” will be webcast as part of the IJJ’s gathering at Harvard of its 2005 racial justice fellows. The topics, times (EDT) and panelists are:… Read more
From Keith Woods: We watched the movie “Crash”
last night as part of our larger mission of pushing the discussion down
to the personal, to the visceral. I’d seen the film in the theater
before… Read more
From Tim Porter: Journalists receive less training than their peers in any other profession, due in part to the news industry’s lack of investment in it. It’s natural, then, for journalists to rank training even higher than… Read more
From Sally Lehrman: Listening to the discussion about the biological non-reality of race (led by Harvard School of Public Health professor Ichiro Kawachi), I wonder if the idea may be all too easy. If we can just wipe away… Read more
From Tim Porter: First some data:
From Heidi Pickman: After hearing this morning from the IJJ
fellows how issues of race had affected their journalism and, later, listening
to a presentation by Brian Smedley on racial and ethnic health care
disparities, I… Read more