FishbowlLA: Medill LGBT Journalism Project Makes Impressive Lift-Off

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Medill LGBT Journalism Project Makes Impressive Lift-Off Oct 26th 2012, 09:45 Earlier this week, Northwestern University rightly heralded their journalism school’s laudable new effort known as the Medill Equal Media Project (MEMP). Put together over the summer by a group of students led by editor-in-chief Camille Beredjick (Class of 2013), the website filters LGBT issues through the prism of the 2012 Presidential election. In a separate op ed by Beredjick for The Advocate, where she once interned, she explained why MEMP is such a big deal: It's easy to understand why LGBT media might be overlooked in a university journalism program. The curriculum often emphasizes national rather than community news. We're taught from the beginning to be objective, leaving little room to acknowledge our LGBT identities in our reporting. Though some schools, like the University of California, Los Angeles, are home to LGBT-specific student publications, LGBT student media are pretty uncommon compared with general campus newspapers… continued… New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media.

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