PHOENIX – The National Center on Disability and Journalism (NCDJ) is now accepting entries for the 2024 Katherine Schneider Journalism Award and the Gary Corcoran Student Prize for Excellence in Reporting on Disability. The Schneider prize is the only professional journalism contest devoted exclusively to disability coverage. It is supported by a gift from Katherine Schneider, […]| National Center on Disability and Journalism
A new guide to help journalists around the world better cover disability issues and people with disabilities has been released by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The manual, as well as a video series, was introduced at an international conference held in conjunction with the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games in France […]| National Center on Disability and Journalism
The National Center on Disability and Journalism (NCDJ) today announced the winners of the 2023 Katherine Schneider Journalism Award and the Gary Corcoran Student Prize for Excellence in Reporting on Disability.| National Center on Disability and Journalism
Lauren Gilger of KJZZ Phoenix reports on a little-known virus that pregnant women can pass on to their children and which can cause serious birth defects. Read more| National Center on Disability and Journalism
Broadcast journalist Dave Stevens writes for Editor & Publisher about what it’s like to be disabled and pursue a journalism career. Read more| National Center on Disability and Journalism
Denise-Marie Ordway writes for The Journalist’s Resource about the rise in depression rates and suicide attempts among young people after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Read more| National Center on Disability and Journalism
Jem Bartholomew writes for Columbia Journalism Review about disabled people in Britain who end up dying when they aren’t able to access government services. Read more| National Center on Disability and Journalism
Emma Camp writes for the New York Times how social media has accelerated the integration of medical labels, like autism, into identity. Read more| National Center on Disability and Journalism
Arriillaga, executive editor of the Carnegie-Knight News21 program at the Cronkite School, will take over for Kristin Gilger, who has led the NCDJ since 2008 and is retiring this summer. Arrillaga joined the Cronkite School in 2019 as a professor of practice to launch and direct the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Southwest Health Reporting Initiative. She moved to News21 in December to lead the award-winning program, which brings top journalism students from across the country to report an...| National Center on Disability and Journalism
Cleveland residents who have vision and mobility disabilities may have to wait a long time before things get better, according to reporter Mandy Kraynak of The Land. Read her story here.| National Center on Disability and Journalism
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