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. @EdWriters is hosting a webinar on its new national report on the state of the education beat in 2021. Caroline Hendrie, EWA's executive director, says they surveyed more than 400 education journalists across the country.
EWA report finds that roughly 80 percent of education reporters are white. https://twitter.com/kclarkcollege/status/1354493971632975875
As much as we try, we are woefully underrepresenting the communities we cover, says @gtoppo on one thing that struck him in the report.
. @EricaLG says she was struck by statistic that 18 percent of education journalists were ever eligible for free or reduced-price lunch as children. She says there's a lot of emphasis on racial representation but socioeconomic representation is important as well.
Green says that among reporters who know what it's like to be hungry, you think differently about how you approach writing about children who are hungry. Says she's not knocking the coverage but thinks coverage would be more robust.
Holly Kurtz of Education Week was struck by difference between younger and older journalists in terms of solutions. Younger journalists focus on big picture solutions like diversifying workforce while older journalists want more incremental solutions like diversity training.
How do you deal w/readers who are hostile to what you are doing? "I do not engage with people who are not acting in good faith," Green says, adding that she's been called all kinds of names. "I do engage with people who have real fears and real anxieties."
Six out of 10 education reports surveyed for the report said they faced physical or verbal harassment. https://twitter.com/EWAEmily/status/1354492734237798401
Green: "I try to be human & validate any concern that comes from a story that I wrote, let people know where I stand, what the motivation was and we can agree to disagree... Anyone who comes at me with complete nonsense... I ignore it, it's the best way for your mental health."
. @ByJasonGonzales: "The hostility towards journalists wasn't just something that popped up after 2016, it's always been there, especially in the Twitter sphere."
"I've definitely had my share of insults lobbed my way," Gonzales said. "It has felt like it's grown. I've had less of that in I would say in the last year being at Chalkbeat."
