I admire Ed Yong's insight and persistence
Friday, December 22nd, 2023 06:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jesse_the_kEd Yong is a science journalist who's been deeply reporting COVID since day 1, including long COVID. He won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for his breaking news coverage at the Atlantic, as well as five other journalism prizes. He's listening to experts by experience, like folks with ME/CFS. From Yong's NYTimes op-ed on how journalists can save lives:
In his poem Why Bother? Sean Thomas Dougherty wrote, “Because right now, there is someone/out there with/a wound in the exact shape/of your words.” Those words are ours to provide, those wounds ours to plaster. Contrary to the widespread notion that speaking truth to power means being antagonistic and cold, journalists can, instead, act as a care-taking profession — one that soothes and nurtures. And we are among the only professions that can do so at a scale commensurate with the scope of the crises before us. We can make people who feel invisible feel seen. We can make everyone else look.
https://buttondown.email/edyong209/archive/the-eds-up-a-wound-in-the-shape-of-your-words/
He offers a "gift link" to the op-ed on his site.
He presents excellent advice to young journalists ...and although it exists in a graphical format, he provides the text FIRST.
His monthly newsletter, The Ed's Up, is free, and as well as thoughts on journalism, science writing, general politics (this month it was Gaza) there is awesome bird photography.
He's also published two books, which I look forward to reading when my brain is up to it.
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Date: 2023-12-23 01:58 am (UTC)I can even read graphics and I always prefer the text!
Thank you for the pointers to him.
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