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Articles tagged immigration (9)

Two years after launch, immigration news site Sahan Journal is growing its presence in Minnesota

Hanaa' TameezOctober 20, 2020

Prism, a news site led by women of color, centers the voices of marginalized people in its reporting

“If you’re going to shift narratives in this country, you need people to actually read what you’re doing.”

Christine SchmidtSeptember 23, 2019

What does it take to change a newsroom’s racial narrative? Minnesota Public Radio built a coalition to try

“I know we’re on the right track, but we need a conductor to keep us on the rails.”

Laura Hazard OwenMarch 11, 2019

Sahan Journal wants to be a “one-stop shop” for immigrant news in Minnesota

“We are not doing a good job with having a diverse angle of coverage, which is different from diversifying the actual staff.”

Christine SchmidtJune 28, 2018

Ten newsrooms, 4 countries, thousands of kids: ProPublica launches a project to find immigrant children

“This is the beginning of the reporting on this for our newsroom. We are being transparent about what we know and what we don’t know and what we need help with.”

Laura Hazard OwenAugust 2, 2017

Migratory Notes reflects the movement of immigration from fringe topic to key beat

“We’ve noticed a lot of people paying attention to immigration coverage who didn’t report it before, and there’s been a broadening of who’s covering it.”

Melissa BaileyApril 28, 2015

Collaborating across borders: European journalists band together to track the migrant crisis

Language barriers make cross-border work tricky, but for complex multinational topics, it can one of the only ways to get the true measure of a story.

Caroline O'DonovanApril 30, 2013

Everyone’s a critic: Hacktivists, online organizing, and the dark magic of down voting at MIT

MIT’s Comparative Media Studies graduate theses critique how hacking is portrayed in the media, whether new media demands new criticism, and how a YouTube policy influenced the writing of comedy and drama.

Mark CoddingtonApril 5, 2013

This Week in Review: What Facebook Home will do to mobile, and retiring “illegal immigrant”

Plus: Alternatives to the metered model, Roger Ebert’s death, changes at the Cleveland Plain Dealer, and the rest of the week’s media and tech news.