Plus, a reminder that what happens to U.S. journalists is relevant to journalists everywhere.

June 2020
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Illustration by Edel Rodriguez


** George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and One Journalist’s Painfully Honest Self-Examination on Racism ([link removed])
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Issac J. Bailey asks: "Does the journalistic tendency to be so careful with race make it easier for racial distortions to take root?" Read the story ([link removed]) .


** From the editor
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“Here’s the cold, hard, uncomfortable truth: No one in the United States is immune to the influence of white supremacy, not even a Black Southerner like me,” Issac J. Bailey writes in his searing essay about how we as journalists must change the way we cover racism and white supremacy ([link removed]) . “Acknowledging that truth may be the only way for journalists to effectively navigate the complexities of race.”

In that essay and in a separate op-ed, “Will This Racial Reckoning Finally Force Newsrooms to Listen to Every Staffer’s Voice? ([link removed]) ”, Bailey argues that the racial reckoning taking place in news outlets across the country is a long-overdue corrective, one that is “about ensuring voices that have been marginalized for far too long no longer will be.”

And it’s a reckoning happening in European newsrooms, too. The impact of migration on the European Union has revealed critical failures in E.U. institutions, including journalism institutions facing calls for more inclusiveness. Our piece on how refugee reporters are telling stories that would otherwise be missed ([link removed]) explores how a handful of nonprofits is addressing European journalism’s diversity problem by matching migrant journalists with news outlets.

As Tabea Grzeszyk, co-author of the book “Unbias the News ([link removed]) ” and co-founder of the collaborative journalism platform Hostwriter ([link removed]) , told Nieman Reports writer Charlotte Alfred, “Diversity is not about political correctness, it’s about the quality of media.” And that quality metric — accuracy, fairness, representation — can only be met when newsrooms reflect the communities they cover and every voice in the newsroom is heard.

Sincerely,

James Geary
Editor, Nieman Reports
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** Is More Speech the Way to Counter Bad Speech? ([link removed])
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The challenge for the media: Defining the boundaries of what’s acceptable and what’s not.
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** Countries Locking Up Journalists May Have a New Slogan: “It Happens in America, Too” ([link removed])
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A Serbian reporter on why what happens to journalists in the U.S. is relevant to journalists everywhere.
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Watch and listen as Issac J. Bailey reflects on what he learned about race in America from a visit to Ghana. See the video here ([link removed]) .


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Reporting the emotionally sensitive story through trauma and physical distance ([link removed])
L.A. Times metro reporter Angel Jennings leans on eight years covering South L.A., and on her humanity, to write about Nipsey Hussle, covid, racial injustice and more.
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It’s time to change the way the media reports on protests. Here are some ideas. ([link removed])
A 2010 study that analyzed 40 years of protest coverage in five major newspapers found that the papers depicted protests — even peaceful ones — as nuisances rather than as necessary functions of democracy.
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