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Columbia Journalism Review content tagged Minority Reports

1. July 13, 2012 06:50 AM

   Covering the ‘ex-gay’ movement

   An influential organization changed its stance on reparative therapy. What will this mean for media coverage?

   By Jennifer Vanasco

   In her new column, Minority Reports, Jennifer Vanasco analyzes how the mainstream media covers social minorities. Recently Alan Chambers, president of Exodus International, an umbrella group ministering to Christians who want to suppress their gay feelings, made a startling announcement: There is no cure for homosexuality. Reparative therapy doesn’t work. This may not seem earth shattering. After all, most people...

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2. July 20, 2012 06:50 AM

   In Joe Willams’s firing, questions of race

   Would the former Politico reporter have been dismissed for his comments if he were white?

   By Jennifer Vanasco

   In America, talk about race is complex and fraught with danger. It is easy for people of good will to stumble when discussing it - and then trip a landmine. One recent explosion seems to have led to the firing, in late June, of respected Politico reporter Joe Williams. You may have heard the story. Williams, a White House correspondent...

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