This article from GWtoday highlights eight journalism students who worked to collect stories from their neighborhoods with the goal of elevating stories from unheard communities. Read more here.
"Students were assigned communities to cover at the beginning of the semester and in the summer participated in a kind of travel program, with GW students joining their colleagues in West Virginia to assist their stories for two weeks, then vice versa. This extended engagement kept students from falling into the trap of “parachute journalism,” which can lead to misrepresentation and deepen the dangerous mistrust between journalists and the public."
