Anthropology X Journalism: Tools for Gaining Trust in Communities
In June 2023, Emily hosted a workshop sponsored by The NC Local News Workshop, for editors and journalists. đź”—Click here for event details.
About this event
Journalists looking to locate diverse voices, keep bias in check, and report with cultural sensitivity: JOIN US Thursday, June 22 for a lunchtime workshop on using ethnographic methods in your reporting and community listening work—with a focus on finding new sources and people to engage.
Journalists tend to work in polarities, interviewing one side then the other. How do you identify new voices, not just those in opposition? Emily Kennedy, a trained anthropologist who has also worked as a journalist, will teach tools from anthropology to help you find the sources that exist in those spaces in between a story’s main tensions, using ethnographic methods.
This workshop will give an overview of the similarities between anthropology and journalism and introduce the ethnographic approach and how it can be applied to help solve journalistic challenges. Participants will leave this workshop with practical ways to apply ethnographic methods to help locate diverse sources—tools participants can begin to use immediately in their newsgathering and community listening work.
The NC Local News Workshop is sponsoring this workshop, which is free to attend. Journalists based outside of NC are welcome to attend, too.
About the instructor: Emily Kennedy is a trained anthropologist and has worked as a journalist and magazine editor for more than 10 years in Canada, the USA and NZ. She has taught as a journalism instructor and guest lecturer at various universities and colleges. Her research in the sphere of anthropology and journalism led to the creation of anthrojourno.org — an online resource for journalists looking to use ethnographic methods in their reporting.