College Newsroom » Reporting http://www.collegenewsroom.org A network for collegiate newsrooms to collaborate, share and learn. Sun, 30 Jan 2011 16:15:31 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Should You Use The “N” Word? http://www.collegenewsroom.org/2010/01/20/should-you-use-the-n-word/ http://www.collegenewsroom.org/2010/01/20/should-you-use-the-n-word/#comments Thu, 21 Jan 2010 04:15:38 +0000 Kelsey Schnell, Creative Developer http://www.collegenewsroom.org/?p=151
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If your newspaper is running a story regarding a topic that involves racial slurs (an art exhibit, guest speaker, book release, MLK week) and the “N” word is used, do you print the word in its entirety? Would it be damaging to the context of the story to replace some letters with asterisks?

What if it’s a quote? Maintaining the integrity of a quote is important in stories, but at the sake of saying something that could be damaging to the newspaper’s integrity.

Should the race of the reporter matter?

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