A Coralville city councilor is hopping into the race for the Johnson County Board of Supervisors. And if she wins, Meghann Foster would be the first person from Coralville to hold the office in recent memory. It s just another perspective that hasn t been there, and I think that, as the second-largest municipality (in the county), it would be good to have somebody that has that perspective, Foster said of the June 8 special election that will fill the seat vacated 21 months early by Janelle Rettig.
Foster is the community engagement coordinator for the Domestic Violence Intervention Program and teaches in the University of Iowa School of Journalism and Mass Communication. She is the vice chairwoman on the board of directors for the Coralville Community Food Pantry.
A bit more media.
USA Today fires Hemal Jhaveri. “This is not about bias … It’s about challenging whiteness and being punished for it.” In her eight years with USA Today, the organization never offered formal support or protection from harassment, says former editor Hemal Jhaveri. But Jhaveri was fired after she “sent a tweet responding to the fact that mass shooters are most likely to be white men” a tweet she now calls “a careless error of judgment” and deleted. Jhaveri wrote on Medium about what happened when her tweet was picked up by the alt-right.
USA Today, like so many other newsrooms, has been vocal about trumpeting its commitment to diversity, equality and inclusion. And yet, doing the actual work of diversity, equality and inclusion necessitates engaging with complicated structural issues that should make white audiences uncomfortable. In this case, after I made one mistake, the company contradicted their commitment to DEI and wilted upon criticism.
Time Machine: Meet Phyllis Fleming. She did it all in 45 years in The Gazette s newsroom
Phyllis Fleming’s desk was usually cluttered, although she never had trouble finding anything when she wanted it. She cleaned it off in August 1988, and it was such a surprise, a Gazette photographer was summoned. Fleming worked in The Gazette newsroom for 45 years. A native Iowan and University of Iowa graduate, she was a reporter, city editor and Sunday editor, retiring as the paper’s assistant managing editor in 2002. (Gazette archives)
Phyllis Fleming, 1988 (Gazette archives)
Phyllis Fleming, c. 1960 (Gazette archives)
Phyllis Fleming is surprised by a green-iced cake in May 1979 for her 44th birthday. The cake, ordered by content editor Bev Duffy, was filled with typesetting commands. (Gazette archives)
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