The Media and Social Issues: Covering Race & Identity in America

This course explores the complexities of reporting on race and identity in the U.S. media. Students will critically examine how news outlets have historically covered marginalized communities like the Black, Latinx, Indigenous, Asian, LGBTQ+, and other diverse communities, analyzing both successes and failures. Through immersive reporting, social listening, and community engagement techniques, students will gain expertise on the challenges facing one or more of these communities to produce their own original, in-depth enterprise stories on an important but under-covered topic. The course emphasizes inclusive journalism.