“Next year presents a fresh opportunity for journalists to get past the sparkle of the ‘first’ and into the substance of how women and people of color campaign, get elected, and govern.”
“If representation matters, so do narratives. Political journalism can shape those narratives — and, in turn, voters’ imaginations about who is electable and who should govern — by reporting on women as politicians.”
“This reality must also be reflected in our nation’s newsrooms, where two-thirds of political journalists are still white men and women are too often still covered as a special interest group.”
“Covering politics in the coming year should mean covering black women — the majority of who we mean when we say “black voters.” It will require rethinking who we mean when we say ‘working mothers,’ ‘college-educated women,’ ‘millennials,’ and ‘values voters.'”
“When we begin to think of race as something we should all care about, no longer will the black reporter be the first to raise her hand to go to Ferguson.”
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Haines, Errin. "Race is your beat, too." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 15 Dec. 2014. Web. 18 Oct. 2024.
APA
Haines, E. (2014, Dec. 15). Race is your beat, too. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved October 18, 2024, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2014/12/race-isnt-a-specialized-beat/
Chicago
Haines, Errin. "Race is your beat, too." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified December 15, 2014. Accessed October 18, 2024. https://www.niemanlab.org/2014/12/race-isnt-a-specialized-beat/.
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