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Posts Tagged ‘ethnic media’
Tips for reporting on diverse communities that aren’t your own
By Amber Liu Trying to excel at covering diverse communities might include new techniques or resources, such as collaboratively developing a diverse source list and rethinking how to best use interpreters. Sherry Yu of Temple University, Michael Matza of The Philadelphia Inquirer and Sabrina Vourvoulias of AL DÍA News suggested these techniques and more at…
Read MoreTips on covering immigrants
By Doug HaddixIRE Training Director Full immersion in local immigrant communities produces the most compelling stories, according to Kirk Semple, an immigration reporter for The New York Times. “It helps to be curious. It helps to be voracious,” Semple told participants at an IRE Better Watchdog Workshop this week in Orlando. The full-day workshop was…
Read MoreBehind the Selden Ring Award
T. Christian Miller of ProPublica discusses “Disposable Army,” his series about contractors in Iraq. The stories won the 2010 Selden Ring Award for investigative reporting. Miller explains how the data analysis — coupled with 200 interviews — gave him the goods to break new ground in coverage of civilian contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan.…
Read MoreTips for covering immigrants
By Doug Haddix, IRE Training Director When she gets e-mails and calls about controversial stories, Claudia Núñez of La Opinion in Los Angeles says some readers ask if she is working against Latinos, even though she herself is a Latina. Her curt reply: “No, I’m not. I’m a journalist.”[/caption] Often, immigrants expect ethnic media journalists to…
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