Wednesday, November 07, 2007
SWOP homepageShameless Plug: Displacing the Dream
Karlos says: Ok. So, like, shameless plug time. The following post is promotion for a report I contributed to for journalists writing about and groups working on housing and development issues. It's focus is the Bay Area, but it's a valuable tool for anyone hoping to use creative strategic communications in their work.Displacing the Dream: A report on Bay Area newspaper coverage of development and gentrification
- PDF Preview: http://youthmediacouncil.org/documents/view/61
- Press Release PDF and Press Kit: http://youthmediacouncil.org/sections/view/pressroom
- Relevant Blog Posts: http://youthmediacouncil.org/blogs/view/user/1
- Read the prologue: http://www.sfbayview.com/News/Main/Displacing_the_dream.html
- Get your copy at http://youthmediacouncil.org/store
Bay Area, CA - As of 2006, Oakland and San Francisco had each lost 20-25% of their African American populations. Displacing the Dream exposes the failure of Bay Area newspapers to adequately cover the crisis of gentrification and displacement facing the Bay Area today.
YMC has spent much of this last year analyzing 3 months of coverage in the San Francisco Chronicle, the Oakland Tribune and the San Jose Mercury News. The result is this report on the dominant and missing stories in coverage of gentrification and displacement in the Bay. With Contributions from anti-displacement groups in the Bay Area and the Miami Workers Center, research support from Data Center, and poetry by Roopa Singh, Displacing the Dream promises to be a groundbreaking tool to support creative communications strategies for organizers in the Bay and beyond.
What did newspaper coverage of housing and development include? Whose voices were heard and whose got left out? What does it all mean? Get your questions answered and buy your copy of Displacing the Dream today, a must-have tool for journalists, advocates and organizers.
