Online discussion and live Q&A featuring Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists Stephen Henderson and Bev Weintraub
On Wednesday, May 19 we visited with two Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists who will helped us to explore and better understand the growing number, expanding role, and the increasing importance of nonprofit newsrooms at both the local and national levels.
What is a “nonprofit newsroom”? How many of them are there? What kinds of stories get covered by nonprofit news organizations that traditional for-profit media can’t, or won’t, cover? These are just three of the questions we wrestled with on the night of May 19. After distinguished careers in traditional for-profit journalism, both our guests now fill leadership roles in leading nonprofit newsrooms.
Stephen Henderson is the Founding Editor of BridgeDetroit which is “founded on a belief that Detroit’s 700,000 residents deserve a transparent, innovative and diversely staffed news organization. BridgeDetroit is a non-profit news and engagement organization that is laser-focused on lifting up the issues that Detroiters themselves identify as important to their lives.”
Bev Weintraub is Executive Editor for Viewpoints, Projects, and Brand of The 74 which is, ”a non-profit, non-partisan news site covering education in America. Our public education system is in crisis… Our mission is to lead an honest, fact-based conversation about how to give America’s 74 million children under the age of 18 the education they deserve.”
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About Stephen Henderson
Stephen Henderson is the Founding Editor of BridgeDetroit, and a former writer and editor for the Detroit Free Press, Baltimore Sun, and Chicago Tribune. Winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary. He also is the host of Detroit Today on WDET and American Black Journal for DPTV and other public television stations. Henderson is a Detroit resident and native.
About Bev Weintraub
Bev Weintraub is an executive editor for viewpoints, projects and brand at The 74. A veteran journalist, she worked for 24 years at the New York Daily News, where she won the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing with two colleagues in 2007. Bev is a licensed pilot and author of an upcoming book, Wings of Gold: The Story of the First Women Naval Aviators. She is a resident of New York City and a 17-year public schools parent.