Diversity in News Reporting Starts Here
Black and White journalism students step outside their own experience to navigate the intersections of race, class, gender, and disability.
As part of a collaborative social justice reporting project three years ago, a group of journalism students set out for Selma, Alabama, to cover sociopolitical issues there, 50 years after Bloody Sunday, a pinnacle in the civil rights movement.
The 12 students, six from Morgan State University, a Historically Black College and University in Baltimore, and six from West Virginia University, a predominantly White institution in rural Morgantown, were partnered across schools as workmates and roommates.
They participated in an experimental classroom known as Story Bridge, launched in 2015 to help future journalists see issues through differ...