Under increasingly intense newsroom demands, reporters often find it difficult to cover the complexity of topics that deal with racial and social inequality. This path-breaking book lays out simple, effective reporting strategies that equip journalists to investigate disparity’s root causes.
Chapters discuss how racially disparate outcomes in health, education, wealth/income, housing, and the criminal justice system are often the result of inequity in opportunity and also provide theoretical frameworks for understanding the roots of racial inequity. Examples of model reporting from ProPublica, the Center for Public Integrity, and the San Jose Mercury News showcase best practice in writing while emphasizing community-based reporting. Throughout the book, tools and practical techniques such as the Fault Lines framework, the Listening Post and the authors' Opportunity Index and Upstream-Downstream Framework all help journalists improve their awareness and coverage of structural inequity at a practical level.
For students and journalists alike, Reporting Inequality is an ideal resource for understanding how to cover structures of injustice with balance and precision.
By:
Sally Lehrman,
Venise Wagner
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 229mm,
Width: 152mm,
Weight: 460g
ISBN: 9781138849884
ISBN 10: 113884988X
Pages: 300
Publication Date: 18 March 2019
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Professional and scholarly
,
Primary
,
Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Introduction PART I: A New Framework for Covering Race Chapter 1 The Individual in Context Sally Lehrman and Venise Wagner Chapter 2 Structural Racism Alden Loury Chapter 3 The Accumulation and Disaccumulation of Opportunity Michael Brown, Martin Carnoy, Elliot Currie, Troy Duster, David Oppenheimer, Majorie M. Shultz, and David Wellman – An excerpt from White Washing Race. Chapter 4 Implicit Bias Satia A. Marotta, Simon Howard and Samuel R. Sommers Chapter 5 The Colorblind Conundrum Sally Lehrman and Venise Wagner PART II: How Opportunity Works Chapter 6 Reporting the Story Upstream Sally Lehrman and Venise Wagner Chapter 7 The Opportunity Index Sally Lehrman and Venise Wagner PART III: Best Practices Chapter 8 Interviewing Across Difference Omedi Ochieng Chapter 9 Avoiding Stereotypes and Stigma Sue Ellen Christian Chapter 10 Using Fault Lines in Reporting Marquita S. Smith Chapter 11 Building Relationships in Under-covered Communities Keith Woods Box: The Chicken and the Listening Post Angie Chuang PART IV: Case Studies Chapter 12 Case Studies Introduction Case Study A Reporting Opportunity in Health Sally Lehrman Case Study B Sometimes School Segregation Comes From Race Neutral Policies Venise Wagner Case Study C Exploring the Wealth/Income Gap Jeff Kelly Lowenstein Case Study D When Housing Separates Us Nikole Hannah-Jones Case Study E Gaps in the Social Safety Net Karen de Sá Case Study F The Path to Legal Status Isn’t So Clear Cut Susan Ferriss Resources Index List of contributors
Sally Lehrman is an award-winning reporter on medicine and science policy with an emphasis on race, gender and social diversity. Her byline credits include Scientific American, Nature, Health, the Boston Globe, the New York Times, Salon.com and The DNA Files, three public radio series distributed by NPR. Honors include a Peabody Award, a duPont-Columbia Award, and the JSK Fellowship at Stanford University. She started and leads the Trust Project, a global network of newsrooms that is addressing the misinformation crisis through transparency. Venise Wagner is a professor of journalism at San Francisco State University, where she has taught since 2001. She has a 12-year career as a reporter for several California dailies, including the Orange County Register, the San Francisco Examiner and Chronicle. She has covered border issues, religion and ethics, schools and education, urban issues and issues in the San Francisco Bay Area's various black communities.
