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Sep 28, 2022

Solidarity Journalism: Opening Remarks for Social Justice Week event at Toronto Metropolitan University

The following remarks were prepared and delivered for the event “Solidarity Journalism: Why social justice is newsworthy,” hosted by the Journalism Research Centre at Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU) on Wednesday, September 29, 2022. Hi everyone, thank you for being here. My name is Anita Varma and I lead the Solidarity…

Journalism

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Journalism

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The Engaged Journalism Lab

·Jul 28, 2021

Want to support accurate journalism? Fund solidarity reporting.

Last summer, solidarity became a national buzzword. Thousands of people declared and demanded solidarity against racism in the wake of police murdering George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. Some news organizations swiftly moved beyond the statement by implementing and amplifying solidarity reporting: the practice of going directly to marginalized communities to…

Journalism

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Want to support accurate journalism? Fund solidarity reporting.
Want to support accurate journalism? Fund solidarity reporting.
Journalism

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Feb 18, 2021

WandaVision and the Fantasy of Return

Spoiler warning: WandaVision, season 1, episodes 1–6 Millions of people have lost someone they love to covid-19 in the past year, and millions more have lost someone they love to causes that don’t make headlines. Watching WandaVision offers a rare glimpse of complicated grief that younger adults (not to be…

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WandaVision and the Fantasy of Return
WandaVision and the Fantasy of Return
Wandavision

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Aug 28, 2020

Heading into Election 2020, Let’s Ask Ourselves: “What Makes This Newsworthy?”

Anita Varma, PhD is the assistant director of Journalism & Media Ethics as well as Social Sector Ethics. Views are her own. In these unprecedented times, déjà vu still hits hard: birtherism against a rare candidate of color on a presidential ticket, “alternative facts” from Kellyanne Conway, and horse race…

Journalism

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Heading into Election 2020, Let’s Ask Ourselves: “What Makes This Newsworthy?”
Heading into Election 2020, Let’s Ask Ourselves: “What Makes This Newsworthy?”
Journalism

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The Engaged Journalism Lab

·Jul 23, 2020

Beyond the statement: How journalism funders can act in solidarity with marginalized communities

“We stand in solidarity with Black communities. Black Lives Matter.” Organizations, businesses, and groups across the United States sent this statement to millions of people via social media feeds and e-mail lists in early June 2020, in the wake of widespread protests for racial justice. …

Journalism

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Beyond the statement: How journalism funders can act in solidarity with marginalized communities
Beyond the statement: How journalism funders can act in solidarity with marginalized communities
Journalism

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Markkula Center for Applied Ethics

·Apr 9, 2020

What to Do When the Numbers in the News Become Benumbing

How journalists can better humanize death tolls, coronavirus cases, and unemployment rates — Anita Varma, PhD is the assistant director of Journalism & Media Ethics as well as Social Sector Ethics. Views are her own. Each morning, a new set of numbers awaits in the news: the number of documented cases of coronavirus (by country, by state, and by county), the number of…

Coronavirus

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Coronavirus

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Markkula Center for Applied Ethics

·Jan 15, 2020

Why Are Politicians Lying & What is Advertising Doing in Politics?

Two alternative questions to “Should Facebook allow politicians to lie in ads?” — Anita Varma is the assistant director of Journalism and Media Ethics, as well as Social Sector Ethics. Views are her own. Debates over whether tech companies should fact-check political ads or prohibit them altogether have continued with a rising pitch since Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg spoke at Georgetown University in…

Journalism Ethics

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Why Are Politicians Lying & What is Advertising Doing in Politics?
Why Are Politicians Lying & What is Advertising Doing in Politics?
Journalism Ethics

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Apr 26, 2019

Regulating Disinformation? We’ve Been Debating the Wrong Question

Sanitizing digital content by fetishizing information will not remedy the root issue at hand Anita Varma is the program manager for Journalism & Media Ethics as well as Business, Leadership, and Social Sector Ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Views are her own. Governments around the world have…

Journalism

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Journalism

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Oct 6, 2018

What criteria should we use to confirm a Supreme Court justice?

The Kavanaugh confirmation hearings and collective action in response have filled me with pain and pride. Watching protestors flood the Hart Senate Office Building atrium on Capitol Hill, seeing thousands of sexual assault survivors and allies walk out at coordinated times, and receiving petition after petition to sign to indicate…

Politics

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Politics

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Jun 4, 2018

#WhereAreTheChildren? Refocusing Social Media Activism on Solutions with Constructive Journalism

Anita Varma and Tanja Aitamurto Over Memorial Day weekend, uproar arose about the US federal government not knowing the whereabouts of 1,475 immigrant children. An opinion column in azcentral, affiliated with USA Today, titled “The feds lost — yes, lost — 1,475 migrant children” sparked outrage from activists, citizens, celebrities…

Journalism

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Journalism

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