Opinion

• Starting a newsletter as a disabled user: a journalist’s story

  My vision only took me so far without my sight when I tried to navigate BeeHiiv, Buttondown, and Substack for my sports newsletter

• Attention: most people won’t finish your 3,000 word article

  Many audiences never read good long-form journalism to the end

• Accessibility is Black History

  What Haben Girma and a longer lineage of Black advocates teach us about access

• Clarity is not the enemy of depth

  Don’t hide behind technical language and jargon; explain it

• How to write alt text for news

  If your image disappeared, how would you describe it?

• For the love of editing

  Good editing is the invisible hand that shapes quality, trust, and accessibility

• Accessibility in journalism needs funding too

  Nonprofit journalism funders must put money behind removing barriers for the disabled community

• Lead with local

  When local stories are national, let’s support the newsrooms already embedded in the communities

• Speaking the local language

  Accessibility is the fastest way local news can grow its audience

• Eulogy for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting

  Let’s not mourn the CPB; let’s start thinking of how we can build something better