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January 24th, 2017

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Demanding equality is a core tenet of journalism, a fundamental belief of many of its practitioners, and should no longer be sidelined. In an era when public trust in the media has hit a historic low and our work and its ethical underpinnings are questioned at every turn, America needs to get to know journalists as I know them: We are not perfect. Sometimes we are too obedient, too slow to query, too easy to distract. But we are by and large ethical and fair-minded people tasked with a job that gets harder all the time. Our identities are not a bias. Women who want equality aren’t biased. They are fair.

Shaya Tayefe Mohajer

Why journalists should be able to join the Women’s March - Columbia Journalism Review

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February 10th, 2016

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The thorny ethics of embedding with do-gooders - Columbia Journalism Review

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December 8th, 2015

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The best and worst journalism of 2015 - Columbia Journalism Review

Lots of great stories to dig into and some lessons that all journalists can learn from in CJR’s look at important media stories and trends in 2015.

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August 19th, 2015

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Can’t afford an unpaid internship? Help is here - Columbia Journalism Review

Landing your first real journalism job is a lot easier if you have one or more internships on your resume, but many of those temporary positions offer no pay. That’s an obstacle for students who can’t afford to work for free, many of whom are minorities.

But efforts are underway to help even the playing field. More news outlets, especially digital natives, are launching paid internships, fellowships, and stipends intended for minorities and other students from modest economic backgrounds. Professional groups and journalism schools are also working to help pay for such positions, in some cases raising money from large donors or crowd-funding websites.

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July 23rd, 2015

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Why aren’t there more minority journalists? - Columbia Journalism Review

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July 7th, 2015

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The cult of Vice - Columbia Journalism Review

For young journalists, joining Vice seems to mean living a sensuous life and doing important work. While most new media gigs connote aggregation drudgery and hot takes, Vice staffers—average age 26 to 27—make longform documentaries, roam the globe, and largely eschew the clickbait content farm.

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April 30th, 2015

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Can virtual reality improve juvenile justice reporting? - Columbia Journalism Review

Students at Kennesaw State University outside of Atlanta are set to embark on a fascinating experiment in using virtual reality technology to bring to life the stories of children caught in the juvenile justice system.
The project, which recently received a $35,000 grant from the Online News Association’s $1M Challenge Fund for Innovation in Journalism Education, aims to create mini-documentaries that give voice to children who are often marginalized in traditional coverage of juvenile justice issues by the confidentiality that is designed to protect them. Protecting confidentiality in, say, a typical broadcast story—a child is heard as a disembodied robot voice or seen as a pair of hands or a silhouette—can dilute the story’s impact.

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April 7th, 2015

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3 takeaways for covering sexual assaults on campus

In this time of media self-reflection about coverage of sexual assaults, it is worth remembering the consensus amidst the controversy over the Rolling Stone campus rape piece. Three points, in particular, come to mind in the wake of…

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March 26th, 2015

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The barriers to entry are famously low—indeed, I podcast from my closet, using a high-quality microphone I bought for $119 and software I downloaded for $49. But even though our producer has years of radio producing and editing experience, our podcast is, admittedly, still rather amateurish. The equipment and editing talent required to make more professional shows is significantly pricier. To cover production costs, most podcasts rely on a combination of listener donations, ad sales, and, increasingly, premium or bonus content that’s available only to paying subscribers. (In the tech world, this last model is referred to as “freemium.”) They’ve also organized into networks of shows with similar styles or subject matter so they can sell ads, share resources, and cross-promote to each other’s audiences.

Ann Friedman digs into the economics of the podcast boom on Columbia Journalism Review.

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February 3rd, 2015

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When gunmen murdered 17 people in Paris earlier this month, it seized the world’s attention. When Boko Haram militants killed hundreds in and around the Nigerian town of Baga the same week, the mass killing scarcely garnered a mention in the Western media.
The contrast between the spotlight in Paris and the blackout in Nigeria resulted in a barrage of criticism charging the international media with a lopsided focus. Those killed in Nigeria, like those killed in Paris, were victims of gunmen espousing an extreme version of Islamism. Those deaths, critics argued, also deserved attention.
The discussion about why the killings in Nigeria were ignored underscored an old problem: News from sub-Saharan Africa is underreported. Whatever the ultimate explanation for the coverage gap, the discussion of the lack of Baga killings coverage offers an opportunity to pivot resources toward Africa, starting with Nigeria.

Why western media overlooked a massacre in Nigeria : Columbia Journalism Review

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