Posted on July 11, the 40-minute Embedded podcast called “The School” (above) focuses on the plight of a tiny Pennsylvania high school near Pittsburgh that’s graduating its last seniors. It’s a moving, powerful piece of narrative journalism that generates tremendous sympathy for the handful of kids and parents who are among the last to attend the […]
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Clustering Education Stories Doesn’t Always Work Best
Above: Overview of 12 Slate stories from “Tomorrow’s Test” series this week. These past few weeks and months have included a number of ambitious, multipart education series: *The WNYC series “Integration 2.0” includes 10 segments so far, depending on how you count them. *The Slate series “Tomorrow’s Test” includes 12 segments over the course of this […]
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Chicago Journalists Honored For Controversial Education Coverage
There’s no shortage of smart, hard-working journalists in Chicago, including several education reporters and editors. So it’s nice to see so many of them honored for their work last week — even if some of the pieces have been problematic for me and a handful of others. The Chicago Daily Herald was honored with 10 Lisagor […]
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Some Alternatives To The Soft, Duplicative Coverage Of This Week’s Chan Zuckerberg Announcement
This week’s announcement that former Obama Administration education official Jim Shelton (above right) was going to head the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) provides a great example to look at how different outlets covered the announcement — and to think about whether it still makes sense for mainstream media outlets to cover these kinds of “news” events. […]
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If #EWA16 Is Any Indication, EdJournalism May Soon Reach Peak Integration Coverage
Mob scene around @nhannahjones and @RickKahlenberg after #ewa16 desegregation panel. pic.twitter.com/yFY8UpEsxR — alexanderrusso (@alexanderrusso) May 3, 2016 That’s a slew of education reporters clustered around the NYT’s Nikole Hannah-Jones at the recent EWA conference in Boston. Hannah-Jones was on three hour-long panels that morning, and involved in numerous other panels during the three-day event. At […]
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New EdBeat Survey Reveals Diversity & Independence Challenges – But No Shortage Of Enthusiasm
So the Education Writers Association (of which I am a member) is currently holding its 69th annual summit (in Boston, we’re all here tweeting #EWA16), and also put out a new report about the state of education journalism. Some of the report findings have generated a bit of discussion around issues of diversity, gender differences […]
