Great short course
Helpful class which includes reminders of how to source mindfully, and how bias can seep into word choice.
Helpful class which includes reminders of how to source mindfully, and how bias can seep into word choice.
As someone who is fully interested in Coronavirus news coverage, I thought this course was very insightful and provided a lot of necessary information. I believe there is great importance in being mindful of diversity when reporting and the profe...
Lisa Armstrong
Video Lecturer
About the Instructor
Lisa Armstrong is an associate professor at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY.
She is an award-winning journalist with credits in The New York Times, The Intercept, The Daily Beast, Rolling Stone, USA Today, The New Yorker, and several other publications and websites.
Full bio here.
The REMOTE REPORTER is a series of videos of 25 minutes or less in which our faculty members share techniques and tips especially calibrated to help journalists and journalism students continue their work while they self-isolate and weather the COVID-19 pandemic.
In this episode, Lisa Armstrong will look into how journalists should carefully consider how we portray people in this pandemic, whose stories we tell and whom we reach with these stories. Using recent examples, she will cover:
- A basic checklist to check our biases and assumptions
- Whose stories are we telling? Missing? And whom are we reaching?
- How to reach marginalized communities
- How do we tell stories of COVID-19 and communities
- The need for context, even in headlines
- How framing and words matter: Victims vs. heroes
- How to make sure we also tell stories of resilience
Closed Captioning is available for this video.