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INC Staff Share the Process for Training Students on How to Cover a Controversial Event

October 31, 2017

Mira Lowe
Mira Lowe

Mira Lowe, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Innovation News Center (INC) director and Multimedia News Manager Ryan Vasquez are the authors of “How Students Covered Richard Spencer’s Talk at Florida” published in MediaShift on Oct. 30.

Ryan Vasquez
Ryan Vasquez

Lowe and Vasquez describe the process they followed to get more than 100 student journalists and nine news professionals prepared to cover white nationalist Richard Spencer’s speech in Gainesville on Oct. 19. They assert that the real achievement was how much the students learned through the process.

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