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Feb 27 2012

Event Video

No Estamos Solos: We Are Not Alone

By Stephen Franklin

In this video from the 2011 Dart Center workshop "Getting it Right: Reporting on Youth Violence," Stephen Franklin, ethnic news director of the Community Media Workshop, discusses covering youth violence in ethnic communities in Chicago.

Stephen Franklin, ethnic news director of the Community Media Workshop, discusses covering youth violence in ethnic communities in Chicago. Bruce Shapiro, executive director of the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma, introduces.

This video is from a two-day workshop held at WHYY in Philadelphia in Decmber, 2011, made possible by generous funding from the Thomas Scattergood Behavioral Health Foundation and additional support from the Stoneleigh Foundation:  "Getting it Right: Reporting on Youth Violence."

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Stephen Franklin

  • Stephen Franklin is an award-winning journalist and former labor writer and foreign correspondent for the Chicago Tribune where he covered the Middle East, served as bureau chief as well as undertaking many assignments in the region. At the Community Media Workshop, he manages the Ethnic Media Project, a program to help Chicago’s ethnic media build their skills and network with one another. Through his work with the ethnic media, Steve helped to develop and launch the anti-violence campaign “We Are Not Alone/No Estamos Solos” to bring black and Latino communities together to spotlight anti-violence initiatives around Chicago.

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