Professor & Director of the @RWJF Southwest Health Reporting Initiative at @Cronkite_ASU. Ex-national writer, enterprise editor for @AP. Storyteller & teacher.
May 22, 2021 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
1/13. As a journalist of color who worked for @AP for almost 30 years as a reporter & manager, I’ve been troubled by what happened with Emily Wilder. There’s a lot I could say about this incident (and some things I have already said), but here my goal is something else:
2. I’m issuing a challenge to my old shop and other outlets to begin taking some actual steps to address the root of the problem: Social media policies – how they're written & by whom, how they're governed, how they're applied & patrolled, & how violations are punished ...