Columbia University Honors Outstanding Coverage of Race and Ethnicity
NEW YORK
Seventeen news organizations were recognized as “best practice” award winners on the coverage of race and ethnicity in the eighth annual Columbia Graduate School of Journalism’s “Let’s Do It Better!” Workshop competition.
The competition brings some of the top newspaper and broadcast journalists to the school to deconstruct their work on race and ethnicity coverage in America. The work is turned into presentations for an audience of news industry leaders and managers, who attend a workshop in June designed to help them improve the diversity of their content and newsroom.
“The excellence awards recognized a variety of best practices, ranging from major investigations to the search for racial identity,” says Arlene Morgan, director of the program, adding that this year’s competition drew more than 100 entries, mostly from newspapers.
Sponsored by the Ford Foundation, this year’s workshop will mark the debut of a new multimedia textbook, The Authentic Voice: The Best Reporting on Race and Ethnicity, a compilation of stories and broadcasts recognized over the past seven years by the program.
The Chicago Reporter and its editor and publisher, Alysia Tate, led the honoree list, winning the Paul Tobenkin Memorial Award, the highest recognition the school gives for newspaper reporting on racial issues.
