The Press-Citizen ran a page-one story and photo last week to recognize Shelter House’s (a community shelter) first year. The photo shows a mother with one of her young children at dinner time inside the shelter. But much of the caption was wrong, although it seemed right. Continue reading
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Doesn’t matter what we call “them” or “black people”
There’s continued talk about how we refer to members of certain races and ethnicity in the news. But I’m here to say that it doesn’t matter what journalists call black people if they continue to tell the same types of stories about “them.” Continue reading
Pulitzer Prize for telling the “same old story”
In the stories included in the 2011 Pulitzer Prizes that were announced today, we see an interesting celebration of local journalism that is supposed to have revealed the “silent voices” that influence urban crime. The stories and multimedia produced by journalists in the Chicago Sun-Times were similar to what we see from any kind of news reporting on crime — stories of daring cops, violent minorities, and urban environments that somehow breed violence. Continue reading