Prism’s Tamar Sarai and members of Media 2070 discuss why the journalism industry’s “reckoning” with anti-Blackness hasn’t shifted into accountability
Tag: Rethinking Crime Reporting
Journalists have incredible power to shape our perceptions of reality, risk, and safety, and with that power comes responsibility. Especially when it comes to how we report crime and the lives it affects. In this three-part series, Prism’s criminal legal reporter Tamar Sarai does a deep dive into the ways people and their communities are continually impacted by anti-Blackness in crime reporting and the media’s uncritical acceptance of the information provided by law enforcement. This series also covers the growing movement within newsrooms and among media advocates to cultivate an active awareness of how our coverage can further entrench racist narratives and provide the public with reporting rooted in context and humanity as much as factual accuracy.
