A Thursday evening (Oct. 25) public forum focused on poverty and news media coverage of it will feature a pair of reporters who were 2017 Pulitzer Prize finalists for a series they wrote on poverty in Chattanooga, TN. The forum, titled “Building Trust: Eau Claire and Its Journalists Engage on Poverty,” is scheduled for 6 […]
‘Beyond the Headlines’ essay and visual art contests have Thursday deadlines
Entries in all four competitions that are part of this month’s “Beyond the Headlines” programming must be submitted by the end of the day on Thursday (Oct. 11), either electronically or in person.
The four contests focus on the role of journalism and journalists in keeping the public informed about issues that should be on the public’s agenda, including poverty in Eau Claire County. Entrants can also deal with whether news reports on this topic portray it the same way it is viewed by members of the audience and why this is important to the public.
“Beyond the Headlines” to explore news coverage of poverty in Eau Claire with October series of events
Examples of poverty in the Chippewa Valley may often go unnoticed unless they are spotlighted in the news media.
How – and whether – journalists do this will be explored in a series of upcoming events in Eau Claire. A headliner forum at 6 p.m. on Oct. 25 will feature a pair of Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters discussing this issue.