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
Tag Archives: race
Journalists’ geographic focus
How to cover race
(Story from In These Times)
The subjectivity (and danger) of online comments
This spring, The Gazette in Cedar Rapids revamped its policy for online comments. Should the Press Citizen and other local media outlets do the same? Continue reading
I’m from “here”: What do geographic identifiers mean?
Has geographic location become the new racial identifier? Take a look at this story.