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Covering Poverty: What to Avoid and How to Get It Right
A tip sheet from Journalist’s Resource to help journalists think more deeply about how they select and cover stories.
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On Calling Little Girls “Princess”
Can this gendered term of endearment be reclaimed as empowering?
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You Are Where? The Name Gentrification of Low-Income Neighborhoods
When trendy areas adopt place names with deep roots, like L.A.’s “Eastside.”
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“Hapa”: A Unique Case of Cultural Appropriation by Multiracial Asian Americans?
On embracing a Hawaiian identity without the experience of colonization and inequality.
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Are “Fetus” and “Unborn Child” Interchangeable?
Guidance from Rewire.News and the 2018 Associated Press Stylebook.
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Moving Beyond “Default” Language in Pop-Culture Criticism
On the practice of assuming that straightness and Whiteness are culturally neutral.
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