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Jun 27, 2022

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As the Supreme Court prepares to hear Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a Mississippi case that outlaws abortion after 15 weeks gestation, the media’s coverage of abortion, and the language used to describe it, will be back in the spotlight. On this week’s Kicker, Maria Clark, a Louisiana-based healthcare reporter with USA Today’s American...

The movement of the Roe story

Jun 27, 2022 By Jon Allsop

On Monday, January 22, 1973, former President Lyndon B. Johnson died. The news, Susan Matthews noted in a recent episode of Slate’s Slow Burn history podcast, overshadowed another story that day: the Supreme Court arriving at a verdict in the case of Roe v. Wade and introducing a constitutional right to an abortion. The decision...

Apocalypse Then and Now

Nov 25, 2020 By Julian Brave NoiseCat

In March 2019, HuffPost sent me to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, home of the Oglala Lakota Nation in South Dakota, to cover the work of an affordable-housing program. My editors had a particular story in mind, and so I was dispatched to source the material to write it. The article would be a piece...

A new journalism podcast looks to history to counter ‘objectivity’

Feb 11, 2019 By Alexandria Neason

The American journalism community fancies itself a completely neutral estate, the poster child for objectivity. But this conceit is, at best, ahistorical. Like all things, the modern press corps was born into an inequitable society, and its strictures show up in the industry everywhere from hiring practices to how certain communities are covered, if they...

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