by Tim McGuire, McGuire on Media I wrote this piece for my hometown newspaper, The Mt Pleasant Morning Sun. It appeared Sunday, May 13. I reprint it here for my regular followers. Read this to understand the controversy to which I refer. I have followed the recent controversy at my alma mater, Sacred Heart Academy, with keen interest. I [...]
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National Center for Disability Journalism gives me a chance to do some things differently
April 13, 2011 – 9:34 pm
by Tim McGuire, McGuire on Media After a personal 62-year journey, it was a paraplegic woman named Jennifer Longdon who finally made me take my disability responsibilities seriously. Jennifer’s story is a tough one to read and if you follow her twitter account @jenniferlongdon, it hasn’t gotten any easier in recent weeks. That twitter feed for [...]
Sizing Up Disability In The Media
October 25, 2010 – 11:07 pm
After disabled model Tanja Kiewitz got the courage to pose with her missing limb to recreate Eva Herzigova’s infamous Wonderbra ad, she thanked her friends and “a couple of glasses of wine,” according to Huffington Post. You might remember Herzigova: A voluptuous brunette wearing nothing but a black brassiere dares readers with the caption: “Look [...]
Wall Street Journal Says Disabled Entrepreneurship Is on Rise
July 21, 2010 – 11:39 am
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 [...]
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 [...]
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