Tracey Goldner

Last January, when I set out to write a thesis, I was initially interested in media effects, framing, and disparities (from a social justice perspective). I had studied media advocacy in mass me...

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I just read through the self-care tips from the Dart Center , and I really like them. I think we should print a few copies off and paste them around the newsroom. They would probably do some goo...

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Daniel Berehulak, a photographer based in New Delhi, won a Pulitzer for feature photography last week for his coverage of Ebola . He worked for the New York Times as a freelancer for about four...

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Vice reporter Kayla Ruble did an in-depth story about the vaccine trials in Liberia. I've been following this reporter because she's been working on post-epidemic stories about Ebola for about a...

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Last Wednesday evening was quiet. It was almost too quiet. I edited a couple of stories and by 8 p.m., I had nothing else coming in and nothing in the queues. Django was behaving itself, and the...

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I emailed Ashoka Mukpo yesterday afternoon in a last ditch effort to connect with an Ebola survivor. And this time he wrote back with his telephone number! Talking with him was incredible. He ha...

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I found this amazing song yesterday as I was Googling Ebola. Liberia's Ministry of Health worked with musicians to release songs that educated people about Ebola. The lyrics cover how the virus...

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There is a lot to learn from the foibles of "A Rape on Campus." The first is that I need to strengthen my internal antenna. I swallowed the article whole and never stopped to question its veraci...

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I loved every moment of our discussion about suicide today. It was tough but necessary. I learned that framing and word choice in suicide reporting is crucial. Copycat suicide is real, so Act 1 ...

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This week, I received two telephone numbers for Ebola survivors in Liberia. One connection came through a photographer and another through the IOM office in Monrovia . I'm planning to call each ...

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Thank you so much for taking the time to talk with me about your experience as an Ebola survivor. I am in awe of your strength and your openness to sharing your story. I am going to ask you ques...

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People contacted for Ebola survivor interview: Ahmed Jallanzo - photojournalist/fixer in Monrovia John Poole and Sami Yenigun - NPR producers (http://www.npr.org/blogs/goatsandsoda/2015/02/2...

http://traceycgoldner.blogspot.com/2015/03/the-survivor-interview.html

I'm seeing more post-epidemic coverage stories now that the number of Ebola cases is slowing in Western Africa. Vice News reporter Kayla Ruble wrote a good Act 2 piece about a young woman's l...

http://traceycgoldner.blogspot.com/2015/03/ebola-coverage-week-10.html

Sonali Deraniyagala's words ripped me away from my reality for two days. I couldn't stop reading her story. I kept thinking that what happened to her was worst-case scenario, then she addressed ...

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Since I read chapter 7 in Anthony Feinstein's book about how 9/11 affected the media, I've been thinking about my own experience with that tragedy. I was a sophomore in college and living in Tac...

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I just got an email back from a Liberian photojournalist who covered Ebola when it hit Liberia. Laura Welfringer interviewed him for Global Journalist last semester and produced Photo essay: Cap...

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I've lost count of the weeks that I've been monitoring Ebola coverage, but it has definitely been long enough to say I can notice trends and see similar frames emerging. This week, I read articl...

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When I sat down to read Marie Colvin's Private War , I expected to meet a woman I couldn't really relate to. I thought she'd be taking one extreme risk after another and making decisions I just ...

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Coverage on Ebola this week included the usual suspects: the call for more assistance, rates of infected people, schools and borders opening in Liberia. It also included some unusual suspects....

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In 2012, NPR correspondent Kelly McEvers turned the microphone on herself and asked some good questions of her profession. Why do people go into war zones? It turns out, reporting from a confli...

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This multimedia piece from NPR: Life After Ebola is beautiful act two story. I love the interview with the psychologist about how communities define and develop resilience. It's fantastic to se...

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I interviewed Lenny Bernstein, a health blogger at the "Washington Post," yesterday about his experience covering Ebola. It was insightful, and I learned a lot. To prepare, I read several of his...

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I grew up surrounded by white people and learned without every discussing it that race was a dangerous topic. I saw that it was taboo and could get you into trouble. So I just lumped it in wit...

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I just saw the questions on the syllabus for "The Unthinkable." I'll add a little amendment to my reading response for this week. Prompt: How has "The Unthinkable" altered your thinking about ...

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I read a lot of Ebola coverage this week. There was an outbreak in fishing village in Sierra Leone , violence broke out in Guinea as children returned to school , researchers from Montana found ...

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