Salutations, Beloved Stalwarts of Dames Nation! This week, the Internet Thing we most want to signal-boost is Gene Demby’s terrific piece How Black Reporters Report on Black Death. If you’ve already read it, then you know what we’re going to say: it’s beautifully reported-- the kind of in-depth reflection on a community of practice that there’s rarely enough room in journalism for, because the members of that community are out there reporting the most important developing news story in America. There are real costs to reporters working the race-and-police-brutality beat, especially when those reporters are members of the community most frequently plagued by those crimes. We joke frequently about #ServiceJournalism, but we’re sincere about it today. Read this piece. You will be so glad that you did.
Categorize Us, We Defy (Many) Labels!
Categorize Us, We Defy (Many) Labels!
Categorize Us, We Defy (Many) Labels!
Salutations, Beloved Stalwarts of Dames Nation! This week, the Internet Thing we most want to signal-boost is Gene Demby’s terrific piece How Black Reporters Report on Black Death. If you’ve already read it, then you know what we’re going to say: it’s beautifully reported-- the kind of in-depth reflection on a community of practice that there’s rarely enough room in journalism for, because the members of that community are out there reporting the most important developing news story in America. There are real costs to reporters working the race-and-police-brutality beat, especially when those reporters are members of the community most frequently plagued by those crimes. We joke frequently about #ServiceJournalism, but we’re sincere about it today. Read this piece. You will be so glad that you did.