What Does Movement Journalism Mean for Journalism as a Whole?

Movement journalism. It didn’t yet have the name, but still, it was there in practice when Ida B. Wells’ name was first placed on the masthead on the Memphis Free Speech in 1892.

Wells, a Black journalist who meticulously reported on lynchings across the American South, sought justice and truth when many journalists wouldn’t. Wells was derided in her own time by many newspapers...

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