In today’s media climate, it’s easy to get sucked into the public drama of overt racial divisions and attacks. How can reporters keep their footing as they take the coverage deeper on the forces driving racial inequality in their communities? The session opens with a panel discussion on how journalists can investigate the unequal, racialized outcomes often hidden from view. The workshop uses the upstream/downstream model from the “Reporting Inequality" tool, which shows journalists how to find various entry points to stories that expose the roots of structural inequity.
The session will then break into groups to tackle problems specific to the newsrooms in room, whether it’s more broadly how to report on race in a community resisting such conversations or granular issues about how to apply to lessons to the education beat or a specific housing story.
