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David Perry writes in the Atlantic about a team of fellows from the nonpartisan group RespectAbility that have joined reporters on the presidential campaign trail. They are posing questions about disability issues and seem to be making headway. Read more
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A story in New York Magazine explores the question, “how intelligent do you have to be to raise a child?”, telling the story of a woman with an intellectual disability who fought to regain custody of her child. Read more
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In The Atlantic, David Perry writes about a reporting team from RespectAbility who have set out to write about disability issues while on the campaign trail. Read more
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CNN reports that a federal grand jury is investigating AbilityOne and its managing agency SourceAmerica, taxpayer-funded programs dedicated to providing work to people with severe disabilities. Read more
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Disability advocates are speaking out against a school for students with development disabilities in California after a video showing a teacher’s aide hitting a nine-year-old child surfaced.Read more
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The BBC has profiled a man leading a village where nearly one in four people have a physical or learning disability. Read more
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The National Center on Disability and Journalism’s style guide was profiled in a blog post from HMA Public Relations this week. The post explains why the guide is an important contribution to journalism. Read more
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The wildly popular Netflix documentary ‘Making a Murderer’ has sparked a massive response, including a petition to free Steven Avery, the series’ subject. But now his nephew’s fate, discussed in the documentary, is also being examined. Read more
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Katherine Schneider, the sponsor of NCDJ’s Katherine Schneider Journalism Award for Excellence in Reporting on Disability was interviewed for a publication at the University of Wisconsin Eau Claire, to discuss the intersection of disability and journalism. Read more
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In the latest issue of LivAbility Magazine, writer Jennifer Longdon interviews NCDJ officials about the center’s recently released style guide and other issues in media when it comes to disability. Read more
