Lewis Raven Wallace has never been entirely objective — so how could he expect to be as a journalist? He cut his teeth as an activist and community organizer for issues such as transgender rights, police violence in Chicago and racial discrimination. On top of all that, as a transgender person his identity was never…
387. Lead reporter in Sandusky case now investigating barriers in school data reporting
Why are some educators better than others at gathering and supplying data about their institutions or students to the press? Whose privacy is protected by barriers to school data reporting: the students’ or the schools’? Sara Ganim, a former CNN investigative reporter, and a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, is trying answer these questions through a Hearst…
#374 What’s changed for women in newsrooms? Less than you think
Across decades and mediums, women in newsrooms have a multitude of experiences in common. That includes shedding, or trying not to shed, a few tears at the office. It’s something that took Kristin Grady Gilger and Julia Wallace by surprise when they were writing their new book, so much so that it inspired the title,…
#352 Students filling a coverage gap for Montana’s Native American country
Spread across Montana are seven Native American reservations and the state-recognized Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians. And for four months each year, a team of students from the University of Montana School of Journalism reports their stories. The Native News Honors Project, now in its 28th year, has two missions: To bring much-needed coverage…