Thanks to the recession and higher unemployment rates, more people with disabilities are trying to go out on their own, and a few good programs are providing them with much-needed support. Today, the Wall Street Journal published the article, For Disabled, a Job Hunt Alternative, leading with the story of New Mexico’s David Shunkey, an [...]
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How Journalists Can Improve Coverage of Autism
March 18, 2010 – 9:42 am
Dr. Lynn Kern Koegel, director of Autism Services in the UCSB Autism Research Center and co-author of a new book on about autism, was a guest on Morning Media Menu this week. On the show, she discussed how journalists can better cover autism –encouraging the media to focus on positive stories about coping with autism, [...]
New addition to the resources page
March 3, 2010 – 11:08 am
We’ve added to our resources page an edition of the News Watch journal focusing on covering the disability community. It includes articles on being a reporter with a disability, how the media gets it wrong when it comes to covering disability and what it is like to be disabled and Muslim, among other articles and [...]
The Dust-up over Braille
January 18, 2010 – 7:33 pm
by Suzanne Robitaille The Poynter Institute is talking about braille and literacy, a topic jump-started by a recent New York Times Magazine article, “Listening to Braille,” by Rachel Aviv. The author writes that new technology may be undermining braille literacy as people who are blind are now “reading” via e-books, iPods, telephone news services and other text-to-speech [...]
New Resource for Disability Statistics
December 16, 2009 – 10:59 am
A new resource for disability statistics has been announced by disability.gov, the Annual Disability Statistics Compendium. The Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Disability Statistics and Demographics compiled the data, which include statistics from federal sources and surveys on disability prevalence and population size, including breakdowns by state and disability type. The site also includes [...]
RTDNF and Ivanhoe Broadcast News Call for Applicants
December 16, 2009 – 10:51 am
The RTDNF and Ivanhoe Broadcast News has announced a call for applicants for a one-week health reporting fellowship for television and new media journalists. The fellowship is open to a working reporter or producer at a television station or new media newsroom with fewer than 10 years of experience. Applications are due by Feb. 1, [...]
E:60 Profile
December 14, 2009 – 9:22 am
By Jake Geller A few weeks back I came across a story that really stood out. The story is a profile that was featured on ESPN’s newsmagazine “E:60” about a high school football player who is blind. I was impressed with both the production values and the storytelling. The majority of the 10-minute story is [...]
Changing Language
August 13, 2009 – 3:14 pm
Eunice Kennedy Shriver, who died Aug. 11, made a huge impact on how intellectual disabilities are viewed through the Special Olympics and her other work on behalf of those with intellectual disabilities. This was evident in many of the articles documenting the life of Shriver. The best example of how the perception of people with [...]
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Welcome to the Disability & Journalism blog
June 30, 2009 – 3:12 pm
I’m hoping that this blog will be used to create a dialogue between journalists who cover disabilities and those who are the subjects of those stories. I’ll start things off by sharing my own experiences as the subject of several news stories for newspapers and television. The first time I was introduced to journalism was [...]
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