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The demographics of the United States—its density, its distribution and the composition of its population—are changing. Discuss the challenges this presents to the media. |
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List and discuss the various beats Newhouse News Service reporter Delia Rios has covered. |
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What were some of the primary findings and conclusions of the 1968 report issued by the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, a group most commonly referred to as the Kerner Commission? List three below. |
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The American Society of Newspaper Editors (ASNE) conducts an annual census to determine the number of minority journalists who work in the country's newsrooms. What was the primary finding of the 2005 census? |
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The textbook chapter discusses a major four-part series by the media critic of the Los Angeles Times, David Shaw, that examined multiculturalism in American newsrooms. What were some of the most common criticisms of the media that Shaw noted? |
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List and discuss the guidelines the textbook chapter provides for improving minority affairs reporting. |
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The textbook chapter reprints a checklist for improving news coverage of minority affairs. That checklist was distributed at the seminar on "Riot and Reconstruction: Covering the Continuing Story," which was held shortly after the 1992 Los Angeles uprising that followed the verdict in the Rodney King case. List the items on the checklist that were adapted from recommendations of The Seattle Times' Racial Awareness Pilot Project; Sandy Rivera, KHOU-TV, Houston; Sherrie Mazingo, a University of Southern California journalism professor; and Mervin Aubespin of The Courier-Journal in Louisville, Ky. |
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List the recommendations compiled by professors Marie Hardin and Ann Preston to help journalists better cover the disability community. |
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List and discuss the set of questions formulated by Keith M. Woods, dead of faculty at the Poynter Institute, for Journalists to use in deciding whether people in their stories should be identified according to race. |
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2007 McGraw-Hill Higher Education