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Sign on to the CJR gun coverage commitment

May 5, 2021 By Kyle Pope

Just over a month ago, CJR convened journalists from across the industry to talk about how to improve gun-violence coverage in the country. Our April 6 summit, which you can watch here, included conversations with journalists from the New York Times, the Washington Post, The Trace, The Guardian and others to detail what was working,...

Covering the election charades in Arizona and Florida

May 7, 2021 By Jon Allsop

In Arizona, the 2020 election still isn’t over. Well, it is—the votes were counted, counted again, and certified months ago; Biden won the state—but Republicans in the state senate have insisted on auditing every ballot cast in Maricopa County (which gave Biden his victory margin), ostensibly to address constituents’ “questions” about election “security,” but really...

Drew Arrieta’s Family Album

Apr 27, 2021 By Alexandria Neason

Drew Arrieta, a photojournalist based in Saint Paul, Minnesota, described the tense moments he spent waiting to hear how the jury would rule on Derek Chauvin as “the most nervous hour ever.” Over the past year Arrieta, who is thirty-one, has spent considerable time at Black Lives Matter protests and related events on water protection,...

Unraveling the Protest Paradigm

Apr 30, 2021 By Danielle Kilgo

In 2018, Sacramento police shot and killed Stephon Clark, a twenty-two-year-old father of two, in his grandmother’s backyard. Early coverage favored a police statement that claimed Clark “turned and advanced toward the officers,” who “believed the suspect was pointing a firearm at them.” In fact, Clark only had a cellphone. Stories largely identified Clark as...

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