Photo coverage of inaugural Diversity Institute class
By freedomforum.org staff;
photos by Shiloh Crawford III
07.11.02
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| Left to right: Catalina Camia, John Callow, Carrie Ferguson, George Walker IV, Caney Sherfield, and Paula Wade discuss challenges they face in daily reporting at a session with Freedom Forum Diversity Institute fellows. |
The Diversity Institute Fellows have taken part in several panel discussions on various aspects of newspaper journalism since the session opened in June.
Photojournalist-in-training Shiloh Crawford III has trained his lens on the action to help cover the conversations.
On June 17, a panel on successful beat reporting featured six reporters with extensive experience talking about how they organize and cover their beats:
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| Catalina Camia, Freedom Forum diversity fellow, moderates panel on daily beat reporting. |
A look at the business side of newspapering was the topic of a discussion — called “Beyond the Newsroom” — the following day.
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| Orage Quarles, publisher, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C. |
Orage Quarles III, publisher of The News & Observer in Raleigh, N.C., led a spirited exploration of the realities of advertising, subscriptions and customer service at daily newspapers.
But Quarles, who also is immediate past president of the Newspaper Association of America, didn’t confine his remarks to newspapers as businesses.
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| Shawna Kelsch and others take notes while listening to Orage Quarles on June 18. |
“At the end of the day … when you get discouraged ... that’s when I ask you to stop and think, why are you doing this? Why are you all changing your careers to go into reporting?" Quarles said.
“I hope you do it because you think it’s a calling. ... You don’t do it for the money. If that’s your motivation I’d tell you right now you’d better get out.
"You do this because you see a problem in your community and you think you can fix that problem," Quarles observed. "And if you do it well ... the money will come down the road as you move to bigger and better things.”
Editorial writing is another important aspect of the work of a daily newspaper.
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| Linda Campbell of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram explains differences between news reports, editorials. |
So is knowing the distinct differences between writing editorials for the op-ed page and writing straight news for the news columns.
“The other side of news: A look at the difference between news reports and editorials,” a discussion on June 20, featured Linda Campbell of the Fort Worth (Texas) Star-Telegram.