The class is designed to study social justice and equality problems in Michigan. Students will connect with the work that other students and professors do at U of M (i.e. Poverty Solutions, Juvenile Justice Clinic, Environmental Law and Sustainability Clinic, Prison Creative Arts Project) and work on stories to target two objectives - learn from and cover the problems that the state deals with and have a better understanding and social awareness of the social problems around them
Required Texts:
Edin, Kathryn; Shaefer, Luke. $2.00 a day: Living on almost nothing in America. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (2015). ISBN: 978-0-544-81195-9
Healey, Jo. Trauma Reporting: A journalist’s guide to covering sensitive stories. Routledge (2019). ISBN: 978-1-1384-8210-4
McBride, Kelly B; Rosentiel, Thomas B. The new ethics of journalism. CQ Press (2013). ISBN: 978-1-60426-561-3
Youngblood, Steven. Peace journalism, principles, and practices: Responsibly Reporting Conflicts, Reconciliation, and Solution. Routledge (2016). ISBN: 9781138124691