This year’s University of Alaska Anchorage Atwood Chair of Journalism is the first Native to hold the position. Alaska residents come from a wide range of ethnic backgrounds and the state is home to half of the nation’s tribes, yet most of the reporters in the state are white. Does this matter? What changes when there is more diversity in reporting?
HOST: Lori Townsend, Alaska Public Radio Network
GUESTS:
- Mark Trahant, Atwood Chair of Journalism, University of Alaska Anchorage
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LIVE Broadcast: Tuesday, October 15, 2013 at 10:00 a.m. on APRN stations statewide.
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