Journalist. Author. Educator.
I stumbled across this trailer on Twitter earlier this week, and I’m hoping to watch the full documentary sometime soon:
The correspondents featured are remarkable for their courage, but their work is also a reminder of why a diverse press corps matters. Women, the film argues, see war differently — and that’s important when we’re trying to fully understand complicated geopolitical events.
USA Today launched its first website just days before the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, and its staff helped create a new kind of crisis storytelling in the aftermath. Rapid updates, photos, and story indexes made the Web, for the first time in human history, a significant source of information for understanding national tragedy. Two years later, another major paper continued to shape our understanding of online news when a Web producer at Philly.com assembled the multimedia version of Black Hawk Down. On the West Coast, meanwhile, the San Jose Mercury News unveiled Good Morning Silicon Valley in the mid-1990s, and it quickly became a popular proto-blog focused on the booming tech industry. (Read more at The Columbia Journalism Review.)
Adrienne LaFrance’s interview with NPR’s Nina Totenberg is a must read. It’s a fascinating look at how much things have changed for women in journalism since Totenberg started her career more than four decades ago.
Meg Heckman 