The Listening Post Collective recently caught up with Andrea Wenzel, the author of the new book, Antiracist Journalism: The Challenge of Creating Equitable Local News. Wenzel explores how to identify and deal with structural racism in US newsrooms.
As part of our goal to look at what’s happening in the journalism sphere from a more equitable lens, we invited journalism student and working reporter at community outlet Boyle Heights Beat, Carmen Gonzalez, to reflect on what the wave of media layoffs looks like from her perch in Los Angeles, and what she’s thinking as she gets ready to enter the industry.
How to divest from the “news desert” framework by listening to and supporting locally-grown civic media makers and projects to help them thrive long-term.
It wouldn’t be the end of year without sharing some highlights and headlines. In this newsletter we’ve got some end of year reflections from places as diverse as Kiev and Trenton, New Jersey. We asked them to share something meaningful from their civic media work this year.