1st Edition
Reporting Inequality Tools and Methods for Covering Race and Ethnicity
Introduction
PART I: A New Framework for Covering Race
Chapter 1 The Individual in Context
Sally Lehrman and Venise Wagner
Chapter 2 Structural Racism
Alden Loury
Chapter 3 The Accumulation and Disaccumulation of Opportunity
Michael Brown, Martin Carnoy, Elliot Currie, Troy Duster, David Oppenheimer, Majorie M. Shultz, and David Wellman – An excerpt from White Washing Race.
Chapter 4 Implicit Bias
Satia A. Marotta, Simon Howard and Samuel R. Sommers
Chapter 5 The Colorblind Conundrum
Sally Lehrman and Venise Wagner
PART II: How Opportunity Works
Chapter 6 Reporting the Story Upstream
Sally Lehrman and Venise Wagner
Chapter 7 The Opportunity Index
Sally Lehrman and Venise Wagner
PART III: Best Practices
Chapter 8 Interviewing Across Difference
Omedi Ochieng
Chapter 9 Avoiding Stereotypes and Stigma
Sue Ellen Christian
Chapter 10 Using Fault Lines in Reporting
Marquita S. Smith
Chapter 11 Building Relationships in Under-covered Communities
Keith Woods
Box: The Chicken and the Listening Post
Angie Chuang
PART IV: Case Studies
Chapter 12 Case Studies Introduction
Case Study A Reporting Opportunity in Health
Sally Lehrman
Case Study B Sometimes School Segregation Comes From Race Neutral Policies
Venise Wagner
Case Study C Exploring the Wealth/Income Gap
Jeff Kelly Lowenstein
Case Study D When Housing Separates Us
Nikole Hannah-Jones
Case Study E Gaps in the Social Safety Net
Karen de Sá
Case Study F The Path to Legal Status Isn’t So Clear Cut
Susan Ferriss
Resources
Index
Biography
Sally Lehrman is an award-winning reporter on medicine and science policy with an emphasis on race, gender and social diversity. Her byline credits include Scientific American, 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-Columbia Award, and the JSK Fellowship at Stanford University. She started and leads the Trust Project, a global network of newsrooms that is addressing the misinformation crisis through transparency.
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 and issues in the San Francisco Bay Area's various black communities.
