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What is advocacy journalism?

Advocacy journalism pushes back.

Advocacy journalism is described as community journalism or movement journalism. This form of journalism advocates for a position, takes a point of view, and is not neutral. This is in contrast to traditional journalism, which is tediously neutral. 🐙

 

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Why is advocacy journalism important?

Advocacy journalism fills the gaps.

Between news deserts, industry layoffs, and the five filters of mass media, communities experiencing the brunt of systemic failures can use advocacy journalism to hold truth to power and to amplify their story, so others know they aren't alone. You don't have to wait for corporate media to tell your story. 🐙

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Community Work​

2019 – present

2017 – 2018

  • Editor-in-Chief, Truth Against the Machine

  • Reporter, Status Coup

  • Reporter, Free Press Houston

  • Volunteer, 90.1 KPFT

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2016 – 2018

  • Communication Director, Houston NORML

  • Communication Director, March for Science — Houston 

  • Developed multichannel campaigns and executed them with a communication committee

  • Volunteered on campaigns, block walking, getting folks to Austin to lobby state legislators

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Community Workshops
 

These workshops are offered online when I post the dates on social media or to any organization who reaches out to me. I also guest lecture at colleges like Houston Community College, A&M, and Rice University about advocacy journalism.

Contact me to coordinate! 🐙

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Advocacy Journalism 101

Empower yourself and your community with my Advocacy Journalism 101 workshop. Don't wait on corporate media to tell the stories that matter to you — learn the basics of journalism and how to get started in advocacy journalism.

 

Take the first step in making your voice heard and driving positive change in your community.

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Media Advocacy 101

Learn the skills to hold corporate media accountable for misquoting, spreading false information, or shaping a narrative that doesn't represent your community. This step-by-step guide will empower you to change the way journalists cover your story.

 

If you don't want to write about your community but still want to hold the media accountable, this workshop is for you.

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Guest Lecturing

I put lectures together to present to journalism college students. In it, we explore news deserts, industry layoffs, current advocacy journalists and publications, and the current state of media monopolies. 

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For non-journalism students, we discuss history and its use of media.

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