Today is national News Engagement Day (NED), which offers opportunities to get involved with the news media and to learn more about them.
It is a day when people nationwide are encouraged to use or react to the news media and to learn more about news reporting principles and processes. Locally, NED is the first day to submit entries in the essay and visual works contests that are part of Eau Claire’s “Beyond the Headlines” (BTH) programming.
“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.