Columbia J-School Honors Best Race Reporters
Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Bryant Gumbel’s REALsports program lead the roster of honorees in the ninth annual awards judging for the Let’s Do It Better! Competition and Workshop on Journalism, Race and Ethnicity at Columbia’s Journalism School.
The awards will be presented at a luncheon on Thursday, May 3, 2007, the leadoff event in a three-day workshop designed to showcase exemplary performance on leading and covering issues or race, ethnicity and demographic change in the United States.
The Let’s Do It Better! Workshop was established in 1999 through a Ford Foundation grant to foster coherent, complete and courageous coverage of race and ethnicity in America as “an urgent journalistic duty,” said Arlene Morgan, the school’s associate dean who directs the competition and workshop. “The award winning work must meet the standards of voice, complexity, context and authenticity, as well as serve as a teaching tool for the newsroom managers and journalism educators who attend the workshop,” added Morgan, explaining the criteria for winning. From Columbia website.