Institute for Justice and Journalism

IJJ offers fellowships, conferences and reporting resources to strengthen news coverage involving issues of justice.

Here are some examples of outstanding journalistic work produced by IJJ fellows.

	Racial IDs in Crime Stories: When Are They Fit to Print? At first glance, the impetus to include race when describing an attacker or burglar seems reasonable. It’s a journalist’s duty to provide immediate, relevant information that might protect public safety. Whether racial identifiers actually serve this purpose, though, is worth questioning.
	Can Unconscious Biases Affect Our News Coverage? For a reporter who relies on what she sees, that little illustration of a big mistake was scary. What might I be missing when I go out on a story? Was there a woman with an umbrella whom I might completely overlook? And when Nosek started showing us the tricks our minds play when confronted with race, gender and other social categories, everybody in the room stopped laughing.
	"Sea of Change: The Boat People 25 Years Later" IJJ Expert Fellow Steve Magagnini of the Sacramento Bee writes a six part series profling a Sacramento-area Vietnamese family 25 years after their arrival in the U.S. Read their stories and make sure to view the accompanying video and photos.
	‘Where Have All the Doctors Gone?’ IJJ Fellow Peggy Townsend of the Santa Cruz Sentinel takes us behind the scenes to explain how she wrote this story and series. At times, she writes, “I felt like I was climbing Everest.”
	Gang Forum Photo Gallery A public forum, held February 12, 2003 at USC, explored "Gangs of L.A.: Myths & Realities, Strategies & Solutions."
	Border Justice Photo Gallery Through these images, photographer José Galvez takes us on a journey that captures some highlights of the week-long IJJ Border Justice Fellowship Conference, held Jan. 9-16, 2006.
	Racial Justice Photo Gallery Images from sessions at Nieman Foundation, Harvard University, and Poynter Institute.