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    How a culture of listening strengthens reporting and relationships

    When Journal Star executive editor Dennis Anderson created a reader advisory board with residents of Peoria’s predominately African American South Side in 2014, he knew [...]

    September 4, 2018
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    Going forward: How ethnic and mainstream media can collaborate in changing communities

    The first thing a reporter needs to know about collaborating with an ethnic media journalist, said Univision host Jorge Ramos, is not to call him [...]

    July 19, 2018
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    Getting started: Some templates and tools for encouraging organic news fluency

    Every story is an opportunity to have a conversation with your audience about what journalism is for and how journalists conduct their work. Each type [...]

    May 9, 2018
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    Journalists can change the way they build stories to create organic news fluency

    When journalists talk about how they wish the public could recognize good reporting from bad reporting or even fakery, the subject often turns to whether [...]

    May 9, 2018
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    Next steps for promoting organic news fluency

    We hope this essay will provoke some new ideas about how to help people become more discriminating consumers of news. Our recommendations boil down to [...]

    May 9, 2018
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    How can mainstream and ethnic media team up to produce better journalism? Learn these lessons from facilitators

    Valeria Fernández has illuminated immigrant life in the Southwest through stories published in outlets such as CNN International, The Guardian, and PRI’s The World. For [...]

    May 4, 2018
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    The empathetic newsroom: How journalists can better cover neglected communities

    Medicine came to the realization some years ago: Being a good doctor requires more than knowing science. The best doctors also understand their patients. As [...]

    April 26, 2018
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    Appendix: Empathy tips for journalists

    Here are some tips for reporters, photojournalists and videographers on how to incorporate empathy in your work: Spend time researching an unfamiliar community before you [...]

    April 26, 2018
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    How to create a newsroom culture that supports empathy

    Empathetic journalism can build bridges to communities, but without lasting changes in coverage, an act of empathy can become another instance of parachute journalism. This [...]

    April 26, 2018
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    How to build empathy into reporting

    Empathy should be a newsroom-wide value, but it starts with reporters because they deal with people in the community every day. No matter a reporter’s [...]

    April 26, 2018
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