Reporting on poverty can take many forms and requires trust but, done right, it will help dispel some myths and stereotypes and succeed in “giving voice to the voiceless.”
These were some of the takeaways from Thursday evening’s public forum dealing with poverty and news media coverage of it. The program attracted an audience of close to 100 people, but others were turned away despite empty chairs in the room. It was the final public event in Eau Claire’s month-long “Beyond the Headlines” series.
BEHIND THE POST: Of Free Speech Week, the Koch Brothers and using labels as the easy way out
By David Gordon, Associate Editor and Board Chair Writing the current “Editor’s Pick” article on Free Speech Week events at UW-Stout raised a number of questions about what to include and what to emphasize. Most arose because the UW-Stout’s Center for the Study of Institutions and Innovation (CSII), which is sponsoring those events, is funded […]