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Mark Coddington and Seth LewisJune 8, 2020

Cellphone videos of black people dying should be viewed with as much gravity as lynching photographs

Plus: How online and offline journalists are more alike than different, the unrealized promise of immersive journalism, and what influences how journalists debunk disinformation.

Laura Hazard OwenJune 4, 2020

“This puts Black @nytimes staff in danger”: New York Times staffers band together to protest Tom Cotton’s anti-protest op-ed

“It has never been my expectation that every piece the New York Times publishes will confirm my personal worldview, but it was also never my expectation The Times would run an op-ed calling for state violence.”

Hanaa' TameezJune 4, 2020

The Philadelphia Inquirer’s journalists of color are taking a “sick and tired day” after “Buildings Matter, Too” headline

“We’re tired of shouldering the burden of dragging this 200-year-old institution kicking and screaming into a more equitable age.”

Laura Hazard OwenJune 1, 2020

U.S. police have attacked journalists at least 140 times since May 28

“Although in some incidents it is possible the journalists were hit or affected accidentally, in the majority of the cases we have recorded the journalists are clearly identifiable as press, and it is clear that they are being deliberately targeted.”

Danielle BrownMay 30, 2020

Riot or resistance? The way the media frames the unrest in Minneapolis will shape the public’s view of protest

Research finds that protests about anti-black racism and indigenous people’s rights receives the least legitimizing coverage.

Taylyn Washington-HarmonJuly 18, 2016

Morgan DeBaun on the growth of Blavity, covering #BlackLivesMatter, and the state of black-owned media

“It’s really about combining technology with culture and content and entertainment to create something special that hasn’t been done before.”

Laura Hazard OwenOctober 15, 2015

Tracie Powell: “We’re supposed to challenge power…it seems like we’ve abdicated that to social media”

“We need to get off that perch and really try to understand, try to walk in the other person’s shoes, live as they live, breathe as they breathe, see as they see.”

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