http://www.cjr.org/ Columbia Journalism Review: The future of media is here en Copyright 2013 Mon, 17 Jun 2013 06:50:00 -0500 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss By Jennifer Vanasco On Wednesday, CJR and the ACLU co-hosted a panel at Washington, DC's Newseum on how journalists can better cover same-sex marriage. The panelists were: Chris Geidner, senior political and legal reporter at BuzzFeed; E.J. Graff, author of What Is Marriage For? and columnist at The American Prospect; David Fontana, associate professor of law at George Washington University; and Steven Petrow,... http://www.cjr.org/minority_reports/on_covering_same-sex_marriage.php http://www.cjr.org/minority_reports/on_covering_same-sex_marriage.php Minority Reports Mon, 17 Jun 2013 06:50:00 -0500 By Jennifer Vanasco There's been a diversity of gay news this month covered in the major media, from the rash of NYC hate crimes against gay men, to the story about a Texas lesbian couple forced apart because of a morality clause in one of the partner's divorce papers, to yesterday's Boy Scout vote to allow gay youths membership. But... http://www.cjr.org/minority_reports/more_than_just_marriage.php http://www.cjr.org/minority_reports/more_than_just_marriage.php Minority Reports Fri, 24 May 2013 06:50:00 -0500 By Jennifer Vanasco The media covers social minorities regularly in the daily churn of news. A lot of that coverage just skims the happenings of the day--a court win, an activist group announcement, what a controversial figure said on his Twitter feed. But sometimes, reporters are allowed the time and the space to examine a social minority issue in depth, or from an... http://www.cjr.org/minority_reports/putting_social_minority_issues.php http://www.cjr.org/minority_reports/putting_social_minority_issues.php Minority Reports Fri, 17 May 2013 06:50:00 -0500 By Jennifer Vanasco The parody newspaper The Onion isn't a news organization, of course. But once in awhile, it tells a truth that our news organizations don't. Take, for example, their recent story on Chris Brown. Brown is a double-platinum R&B singer known for his dance moves--and for beating his girlfriend, the singer Rihanna, so badly in 2009 that she went... http://www.cjr.org/minority_reports/when_only_the_onion_tells_it_l.php http://www.cjr.org/minority_reports/when_only_the_onion_tells_it_l.php Minority Reports Fri, 10 May 2013 06:50:00 -0500 By Jennifer Vanasco Sometime between the end of March and the end of April, an Ohio transgender woman was brutally murdered--she was stabbed repeatedly and then tied to a concrete block and cast into a pond. She was left with no clothes below the waist, perhaps to shame her. This crime is heartbreaking and vicious. You would think it could not get worse.... http://www.cjr.org/minority_reports/how_not_to_report_on_a_transge.php http://www.cjr.org/minority_reports/how_not_to_report_on_a_transge.php Minority Reports Fri, 03 May 2013 06:50:00 -0500 By Jennifer Vanasco A bill that is crucial to the civil rights of the LGBT community was reintroduced in both houses of Congress on Thursday, and you probably didn't hear a thing about it. That's because the bill isn't about marriage. If it were a national marriage bill, the media would have been all over it. Heck, if it were just the first... http://www.cjr.org/minority_reports/where_is_the_media_on_enda.php http://www.cjr.org/minority_reports/where_is_the_media_on_enda.php Minority Reports Fri, 26 Apr 2013 06:50:00 -0500 By Jennifer Vanasco We don't know yet who planted the Boston Marathon bombs. Maybe it was a crazy loner. Maybe it was someone affiliated with a right-wing militia group. Maybe it was Islamic jihadists (The Week has a nice rundown of the current theories). In a knowledge vacuum, though, the public will speculate that acts of terror arise from the group they... http://www.cjr.org/minority_reports/in_marathon_explosion_coverage.php http://www.cjr.org/minority_reports/in_marathon_explosion_coverage.php Minority Reports Thu, 18 Apr 2013 06:50:00 -0500 By Jennifer Vanasco I wasn't planning to write about the dust-up after Obama called California's Kamala Harris the country's "best-looking attorney general." After all, he apologized almost immediately, it happened a week ago, and I thought we could all agree he shouldn't have done that and then move on. But then I saw this headline: "Kamala Harris' Star Power Buoyed by Obama... http://www.cjr.org/minority_reports/kamala_harris.php http://www.cjr.org/minority_reports/kamala_harris.php Minority Reports Fri, 12 Apr 2013 06:50:00 -0500 By Jennifer Vanasco It seems like every day in the news cycle there is a fascinating tidbit I'd like to cover in Minority Reports. But I only write once a week, so, too often, I have to let those pieces go. I keep a running list of what I'd like to write about but haven't. Here, in no particular order, are my quick... http://www.cjr.org/minority_reports/quick_takes_catching_up.php http://www.cjr.org/minority_reports/quick_takes_catching_up.php Minority Reports Fri, 05 Apr 2013 06:50:00 -0500 By Ann Friedman Let's face it: The conversation about diversity in journalism is mostly boring hand-wringing. With each new byline count, it's easy to despair that gender and ethnic diversity is mostly a pipe dream--a goal that applies more to HR handbooks than actual newsroom practices. But earlier this month, after MSNBC announced it was giving Chris Hayes... http://www.cjr.org/realtalk/chris_hayes.php http://www.cjr.org/realtalk/chris_hayes.php #Realtalk Thu, 28 Mar 2013 11:00:00 -0500 By Jennifer Vanasco It isn't just CNN. Over the past few days, there has been a lot of anger directed at the cable network, after a reporter called the two convicted Steubenville rapists "young men that had such promising futures, star football players, very good students" and an anchor seemed to be more sympathetic to the young men than the 16-year-old victim.... http://www.cjr.org/minority_reports/rape_case_coverage.php http://www.cjr.org/minority_reports/rape_case_coverage.php Minority Reports Fri, 22 Mar 2013 06:50:00 -0500 By Jennifer Vanasco In a recent blog post, Lyra McKee tells a story that took place at a feminist-run charity when she was starting off as an investigative reporter (The brackets are McKee's). One day, we were in their office when the subject of my career post-university came up. "I don't think you could be an investigative reporter," one of them said.... http://www.cjr.org/minority_reports/need_more_lady_investigative_j.php http://www.cjr.org/minority_reports/need_more_lady_investigative_j.php Minority Reports Fri, 15 Mar 2013 06:50:00 -0500 By Jennifer Vanasco Why do we in the media try to make some women standard bearers for all women? That's the problem, really, that underlies the backlash -- and the backlash's backlash -- to the leadership of tech executives Sheryl Sandberg and Marissa Mayer. Sandberg and Mayer are very different women who became targets of media attention in the past month for very... http://www.cjr.org/minority_reports/sandberg_and_mayer_arent_all_w.php http://www.cjr.org/minority_reports/sandberg_and_mayer_arent_all_w.php Minority Reports Fri, 08 Mar 2013 06:50:00 -0500 By Lori Tharps At the end of January, I organized and moderated a panel at Temple University's School of Media and Communications called "Separate But Equal? The Role of the Black Media in the 21st Century." The title of the panel was deliberately provocative, because I wanted people to consider whether having media outlets that cater to specific ethnic groups was regressive and... http://www.cjr.org/minority_reports/black_media_separate_and_equal.php http://www.cjr.org/minority_reports/black_media_separate_and_equal.php Minority Reports Mon, 04 Mar 2013 06:50:00 -0500 By Jennifer Vanasco Last week, The Washington Post asked itself an interesting question in a headline: "Is The Post Pro-Gay?" Meaning, does it cover the issue of gay marriage fairly, or is it advocating for marriage equality in the guise of news? The ombudsman, Patrick Pexton (today is his last day at the Post), wrote that during his tenure he's received a... http://www.cjr.org/minority_reports/is_the_washington_post_pro-gay.php http://www.cjr.org/minority_reports/is_the_washington_post_pro-gay.php Minority Reports Thu, 28 Feb 2013 14:50:00 -0500