advocacy journalism (Page 5)
October 27, 2021
Why ‘The Moratorium Saved Us. It Really Did.’ Qualifies As Advocacy Journalism
Advocacy journalism has a long history in America. From Ida B. Wells’s heroic investigations into Southern lynchings in the late […]
October 26, 2021
The Urgency of Advocacy Journalism on Climate Change
The article “2020 Is Our Last, Best Chance to Save the Planet”, written by Justin Worland for Time Magazine, is […]
November 22, 2020
Commentary: This Atlantic Writer Makes the Case for Victims
The Atlantic's Barbara Bradley Hagerty investigated the stories of sexual assault victims whose whose rape kits remained untested by police.
October 5, 2020
Opinion: The Inadvertent Advocacy of Deeply Humane Reporting
(RIVERSIDE, Calif.) — Two years ago, Sudarsan Raghavan of the Washington Post visited the village of Raqah, Yemen, one month […]
November 24, 2019
In ‘Stranger with a Camera’ Filmmaker Re-examines Community’s Past
In late September, 1967, Canadian journalist Hugh O’Connor was shot and killed outside of a home in Jeremiah, Kentucky. The latest in a string of reporters who’d trekked into Appalachia to report from the epicenter of crushing labor and poverty, O’Connor was a victim, in part, of growing resentment of the media in the wake Appalachian portrayals and coverage from the War on Poverty.