Journalist turned educator to visit Greenlee School
By Jana McConnell
Greenlee Web Team
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A former journalist turned educator is
scheduled to spend a week at the Greenlee School March 27–April 1 to share her experiences with students.
As an assistant editor and writer at the Los Angeles Times, Mercedes Lynn de Uriarte was responsible for expanding coverage of Mexico and Central America as well as U.S. minority communities.
De Uriarte will be visiting the Greenlee School as part of a Big 12 grant. While at the Greenlee School, she will meet with the Iowa State Daily staff and the Iowa State Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. She will also visit various journalism and communication classes, as well as Latin American studies and women’s studies classes.
In addition, de Uriarte will present a lecture “Diversity and Its Discontents: The Bumpy Road to Recognition, Representation and Reality” at 8 p.m. Monday, March 27 in the Great Hall of the Memorial Union. Her lecture is sponsored by the Greenlee School and the Committee on Lectures.
At one point during her journalism career, de Uriarte worked as an investigative reporter working on behalf of the Committee to Protect Journalists in Uruguay to document press conditions during the transition from dictatorship to democracy.
She is now an associate professor specializing in journalism, Latin American studies and women’s studies at the University of Texas at Austin. De Uriarte frequently publishes in mass media and academic publications.
De Uriarte was born in the United States and raised in Mexico. She earned her master’s and doctorate degrees from Yale University.
At the University of Texas, de Uriarte developed the first course in the nation to educate non-minority journalism students on how to cover under-represented communities. She also started a course in community journalism that produced Tejas, a publication for diverse voices. Tejas was the first publication of its kind in the nation produced in a classroom laboratory.
More recently, de Uriarte completed a project funded by the Ford Foundation that examines journalism ethics, intellectual diversity and professional development entitled “Diversity Disconnects: From Classroom to Newsroom.” The report draws on two years of research to fully assess efforts during the past 25 years to integrate newsrooms and diversify media content.
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