Episode 15: Mark Curnutte, Reporting, and Race
Mark Curnutte has been on the faculty of Miami University in Oxford Ohio for the past several years where he teaches courses on journalism and social justice. He is also a multi-award-winning career newspaper journalist who has reported extensively on social issues of race, class, poverty, homelessness, and immigration, including for the Cincinnati Enquirer where he worked 25 years. Over 80 of the articles he wrote for the Enquirer are reproduced in his most recent book: “Across the Color Line: Reporting 25 Years in Black Cincinnati."
Our guest for this episode – in which our focus is racial equity in media reporting - is Mark Curnutte (http://www.miamioh.edu/cas/academics/departments/sociology-gerontology/about/faculty-staff/mark-curnutte/index.html).
Mark Curnutte has been on the faculty of Miami University in Oxford Ohio for the past several years where he teaches courses on journalism and social justice. He is also a multi-award-winning career newspaper journalist who has reported extensively on social issues of race, class, poverty, homelessness, and immigration, including for the Cincinnati Enquirer where he worked 25 years. Over 80 of the articles he wrote for the Enquirer are reproduced in his most recent book: “Across the Color Line: Reporting 25 Years in Black Cincinnati" (https://ucincinnatipress.uc.edu/9781947602014/across-the-color-line/)
The following video, from the Columbus Metropolitan Club on the subject of “How Media Perpetuates Bias,” is mentioned during the podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJmrAVs3B9A
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