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Let's Do It Better! Workshop on Journalism, Race & Ethnicity |
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The Tenth Annual |
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2008 Lifetime Achievement Award Winners | |||
Mae Cheng AMNew York | Jeff Fager CBS News/60 Minutes | Sig Gissler Founding Dir., Let's Do It Better! Administrator, Pulitzer Prizes | |
Earl G. Graves, Sr. Black Enterprise | Bob Herbert The New York Times | Ray Suarez NewsHour with Jim Lehrer | |
Walterene “Walt” Swanston National Public Radio | |||
2008 Best Practice Award Winners
Broadcast Winners
CBS News 60 Minutes - “The Justice Nobody Knows”
CBS News 60 Minutes - “Reconstructing the Family Tree”
CNN - “The Noose: An American Nightmare”
CNN - “Suffering in Silence”
Paul Finebaum - “Paul Finebaum Radio Network”
WFAA-TV (Dallas) - “KinderPrison”
Print Winners
Eric Deggans, The St. Petersburg Times – Portfolio of Work
The Daily Times (Farmington, NM), Troy Turner - Portfolio of Work
David Gonzalez, The New York Times –“House Afire”
Jonathan Kaufman, The Wall Street Journal- Portfolio of Work
The Miami Herald - “A Rising Voice: Afro-Latin Americans”
Judy Pasternak, The Los Angeles Times – “Blighted Homeland”
The Philadelphia Inquirer – “Too Tough: Tactics in Suburban Policing”
The Plain Dealer (Cleveland) – “Can We Save Our Neighborhoods?”
Sun-Sentinel (South - Florida) – “The New South Florida”
William C. Rhoden, The New York Times - Portfolio of Work
Arlene Morgan giving Henry Louis Gates, Jr. the Let's Do It Better award
Let's Do It Better! panel
Photos/Rebecca Castillo
The next workshop will be held May 1 – 3, 2008
The Let’s Do It Better! Workshop on Journalism, Race and Ethnicity is a national competition and workshop designed to foster coherent complete and courageous coverage about race and ethnicity in America.
Sponsored by the Ford Foundation, this annual workshop, now in its ninth year, demonstrates that quality journalism can be achieved through work that punctures stereotypes and stirs fresh discussion.
This prize program is unique in the journalism field in that it converts the award-winning pieces into case study presentations for an audience of news industry leaders and managers who want to improve the diversity of their content and newsrooms. These ‘gatekeepers’ learn how to use the honored pieces to improve the cultural competency of their newsrooms or classrooms to produce newsworthy stories.
In their tone, content and design, the Workshop serves to:
• Equip newsroom and classroom leaders with take-home lessons based on thecourageous and risk-taking standards of coverage the program honors
• Deepen the commitment of news media gatekeepers to improve coverage of
race and ethnicity that will engage their communities in a dialogue on
how these topics impact their lives.
• Provide ideas on how to improve the newsroom environment in which journalists
of varying race and ethnic backgrounds function
We seek work that examines coverage from a multiple of perspectives, with topics ranging from affirmative action, inter-racial romance, racial profiling, to "white flight." But we also seek work that integrates race and ethnicity into beat reporting—from national, or education to fashion. By pushing beyond black vs. white into the multicultural complexity of contemporary America, the Workshop explores efforts to change newsroom cultures and re-define journalistic missions. Moreover, because both print and broadcast are involved, the workshop provides an unusual chance for cross-pollination between those mediums.
We receive approximately 200 newspaper and broadcast entries every year. Each entry undergoes a vigorous judging process based on the context, voice and complexity of the topic as well as the ability of the reporter to integrate the daily news report.
The Columbia Journalism School invites you to submit an entry to join our family of newspaper and broadcast journalists who have been honored since 1999 for their outstanding contributions to the understanding of race and ethnicity. In addition, we are seeking news managers and journalism educators who would like to participate in the workshop as ‘gatekeepers.’ Please see the links below for applications. Our next workshop, to be held at the school, is scheduled for May 1-3, 2008.
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We are seeking print, broadcast and radio stories that illuminate controversial issues or include race and ethnicity in the coverage. This may also include daily lifestyle reports such as food, religion or health and medicine coverage.
Contact Information:
Arlene Morgan, Director
am494@Columbia.edu
(212) 854-5377
The Authentic Voice: The Best Reporting on Race and Ethnicity |
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| The Authentic Voice: The Best Reporting on Race and Ethnicity (Columbia University Press, July 2006), a compilation of newspaper and broadcast stories that have been published as a text book/dvd/website project. The book is edited by Arlene Notoro Morgan, workshop director; Keith Woods, dean of Poynter Institute; and Alice Pifer, director of professional education at the school. |