Media and Minorities
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Sally Lehrman<br />
this complaint by using technology <strong>and</strong> the digital environment to support<br />
the highest journalistic principles. Can we use digital tools to differentiate<br />
high-quality, original reporting, to indicate expert work in ways such as the<br />
following?<br />
1) Author biographies: What is the expertise of this reporter? Does she or he<br />
have a conflict of interest?<br />
2) Methodology: How many editors, if any, reviewed a story?<br />
3) Web of information: Can we help audiences see when one news report is<br />
built upon other reliable reports or data, when it is an outlier, or when it<br />
may be fake?<br />
4) Collaboration: Can we share data <strong>and</strong> reporting? ProPublica,42 for example,<br />
opens its investigative databases to other outlets, such as Univision. And<br />
Univision43 is collaborating with a local news station in San Francisco.44<br />
5) Transparency: Can we show our ethics <strong>and</strong> diversity policies on news sites<br />
<strong>and</strong> create better methods to be accountable to them? For example, the-<br />
German press code addresses religious <strong>and</strong> racial discrimination. That’s<br />
worth highlighting.45<br />
Journalists have an important role to play in bringing together all of society’s<br />
groups, informing them about one another, <strong>and</strong> helping them to identify <strong>and</strong><br />
shape shared values. By addressing those of our personal values <strong>and</strong> practices<br />
that unintentionally create bias <strong>and</strong> by building trust with our audiences, we<br />
can do this well. We can rid ourselves of the assumptions embedded in our<br />
minds <strong>and</strong> in our cultures that undermine a peaceful, inclusive society.<br />
References<br />
Print Sources<br />
Behm-Morawitz, Elizabeth, <strong>and</strong> Michelle Ortiz. “Race, Ethnicity <strong>and</strong> the <strong>Media</strong>.” In The<br />
Oxford H<strong>and</strong>book of <strong>Media</strong> Psychology, edited by Karen E. Dill. New York: Oxford University<br />
Press, 2013.<br />
Berger, Judson. “Border Patrol Union Claims Scabies ‘Outbreak’ Threatens Agents, Public.”<br />
Fox News, 7 July 2014. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/07/07/border-patrol-unionclaims-scabies-outbreak-threatens-agents-public/.<br />
42 propublica.org.<br />
43 univision.com.<br />
44 abc7news.com/society/abc7-announces-collaboration-with-univision-14/240800/, accessed<br />
30 August 2015.<br />
45 Journalists can apply the insights from new scientific findings about implicit bias <strong>and</strong> behavior<br />
to the directives of the code.<br />
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