Reporting Inequality: Tools and Methods for Covering Race and Ethnicity PDF
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REPORTING INEQUALITY 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’srootcauses. 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 practices in writing while emphasizing community-basedreporting.Throughoutthebook,toolsandpracticaltechniquessuch as the FaultLinesframework,theListeningPost,and theeditors’OpportunityIndexand Upstream-DownstreamFrameworkallhelpjournalistsimprovetheirawarenessandcover- ageofstructuralinequityatapracticallevel. For students and journalists alike, Reporting Inequality is an ideal resource for under- standinghowtocoverstructuresofinjusticewithbalanceandprecision. Sally Lehrman is an award-winning reporter on medicine and science policy with an emphasisonrace,gender,andsocialdiversity.HerbylinecreditsincludeScientificAmerican, 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-ColumbiaAward,andtheJSKFellowshipatStanfordUniversity.Shestartedand leadstheTrustProject,aglobalnetworkofnewsroomsthatisaddressingthemisinforma- tioncrisisthroughtransparency. 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, andissuesintheSanFranciscoBayArea’svariousblackcommunities. This page intentionally left blank REPORTING INEQUALITY Tools and Methods for Covering Race and Ethnicity Edited by Sally Lehrman and Venise Wagner Firstpublished2019 byRoutledge 52VanderbiltAvenue,NewYork,NY10017 andbyRoutledge 2ParkSquare,MiltonPark,Abingdon,Oxon,OX144RN RoutledgeisanimprintoftheTaylor&FrancisGroup,aninformabusiness ©2019Taylor&Francis TherightofSallyLehrmanandVeniseWagnertobeidentifiedasthe authorsoftheeditorialmaterial,andoftheauthorsfortheirindividual chapters,hasbeenassertedinaccordancewithsections77and78ofthe Copyright,DesignsandPatentsAct1988. Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthisbookmaybereprintedorreproduced orutilisedinanyformorbyanyelectronic,mechanical,orothermeans, nowknownorhereafterinvented,includingphotocopyingandrecording, orinanyinformationstorageorretrievalsystem,withoutpermissionin writingfromthepublishers. Trademarknotice:Productorcorporatenamesmaybetrademarksor registeredtrademarks,andareusedonlyforidentificationandexplanation withoutintenttoinfringe. 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This page intentionally left blank CONTENTS ListofIllustrations x Acknowledgments xi NoteonTerminology xiii Introduction 1 SallyLehrmanandVeniseWagner PARTI ANewFrameworkforCoveringRace 9 1 TheIndividualinContext 11 SallyLehrmanandVeniseWagner 2 StructuralandSystemicRacism 29 AldenLoury 3 TheAccumulationandDisaccumulationofOpportunity 46 MichaelK.Brown,MartinCarnoy,ElliotCurrie, TroyDuster,DavidB.Oppenheimer,MajorieM.Shultz,and DavidWellman 4 ExaminingImplicitRacialBiasinJournalism 66 SatiaA.Marotta,SimonHoward,andSamuelR.Sommers viii Contents 5 TheColorblindConundrum 82 SallyLehrmanandVeniseWagner PARTII HowOpportunityWorks 103 6 ReportingtheStoryUpstream 105 SallyLehrmanandVeniseWagner 7 TheOpportunityIndex 126 SallyLehrmanandVeniseWagner PARTIII BestPractices 153 8 InterviewingacrossDifference 155 OmediOchieng 9 AvoidingStereotypesandStigma 162 SueEllenChristian 10 UsingFaultLinesinReporting 173 MarquitaS.Smith 11 BuildingRelationshipsinUnder-CoveredCommunities 184 KeithWoods PARTIV CaseStudies 197 12 CaseStudies:IntroductiontoCaseStudies 199 CaseStudyA:ReportingOpportunityinHealth 200 SallyLehrman CaseStudyB:SometimesSchoolSegregationComesfrom RaceNeutralPolicies 210 VeniseWagner Contents ix CaseStudyC:ExploringtheWealth/IncomeGap 218 JeffKellyLowenstein CaseStudyD:WhenHousingSeparatesUs 224 NikoleHannah-Jones CaseStudyE:GapsintheSocialSafetyNet 231 KarendeSá CaseStudyF:ThePathtoLegalStatusIsn’tsoClearCut 238 SusanFerriss Conclusion 246 SallyLehrmanandVeniseWagner Bibliography 256 NotesonContributors 280 Index 287
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