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Craig Gundersen, Baylor University Despite the profound impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the vulnerable in the United States, the percentage of Americans in food-insecure households held steady in 2020 at 10.5%, figures released on Sept. 8, 2021, show. Although unchanged from 2019, the new numbers are important for two main reasons. First, food insecurity – the state of being unable to adequately provide food for yourself or your family – has become one of the leading, if not the leading, indicator of well-being for vulnerable Americans. And with 38.3 million food-insecure Americans, the number of people affected is still high. Second, the fact that the overall rate did not increase despite a serious economic downturn underscores the importance of government intervention when it come...

News organizations are trying to do a better job connecting with their audiences, in hopes of overcoming the profession’s credibility problems and ensuring its long-term survival. To do this, a growing number of newsrooms have for years embraced what’s called “audience engagement,” a loosely defined term that typically refers to efforts to increase the communication between journalists and the people they hope to reach. These efforts take many forms, and vary from online – for example, the use of social media to interact with readers about a story after it’s been published – to offline – for example, meetings between journalists and community members to discuss a story currently being produced. At its best, engagement shows audiences that journalists are real people, with the training a...

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The Actions Of Government And Charitable Organizations Likely Kept Millions Of Americans Out Of Food Insecurity During The Pandemic

By Insisting Journalists Engage With Their Audience, News Organizations May Be Setting Them Up For Abuse