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This site is hosted and
maintained by News Watch, a project of the Center for Integration
and Improvement of Journalism at San Francisco State University.
The aim of News Watch is to encourage and increase open
dialogue among journalists and U.S. news media managers
about the importance of more accurate and inclusive coverage
of ethnic minorities, gays and lesbians, and people with
disabilities. Such dialogue on issues of representation
and diversity is necessary in order to ultimately achieve
better coverage of communities that have historically been
misrepresented or under-represented in the U.S. news media.
News Watch focuses on the issues that spark discussion and
are central to this debate. The project provides the tools
and resources necessary to improve the accuracy of coverage
of these diverse communities.
The site’s executive editor is Valerie Chow Bush.
The project is overseen by Cristina Azocar, Ph.D., director
of the Center for Integration and Improvement of Journalism,
and Dara Tom, former Director of News Watch. Associate Professor
of Communication at Wayne State University is the editor
on the project. The projects' web designer is Andrew DeVigal,
assistant professor of Journalism at San Francisco State
University.
Contributing writers are freelance journalists Sally Farhat;
Bryce Hoffman; John Kearney; Monique Parsons; Ira Rifkin;
and Rhonda Roumani.
Photos are graciously donated by the Detroit Free Press;
Wael Hesham Abdelgawad, administrator of Zawaj.com and Zmats.com;
freelance photographer Rick Rocamora; and Jolie Stahl, whose
photos originally appeared in "Black Pilgrimage to
Islam" (Oxford University Press, 2002).
News Watch also wishes to thank our consultants Noreen Ahmed-Ulla,
reporter at the Chicago Tribune; John Esposito, professor
of religion and international relations at Georgetown University,
and director of the Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding;
and Sulayman Nyang, professor of African Studies at Howard
University.
For comments or questions, contact News Watch at newsproj@sfsu.edu
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