More than 61 million Americans live with disabilities, yet they remain underrepresented in journalism produced by U.S. newsrooms. Are you prepared to be a watchdog for disabled voters in your communities? What is your newsroom doing to ensure your election coverage is useful and accessible for disabled voters? How are you covering voter rights and accessibility leading up to and on Election Day?
The National Press Club Journalism Institute hosted a virtual discussion with experts in voter access, disability representation, and accessible news coverage on best practices to cover disabled voters and to highlight voting access issues they may face. Participants heard from:
Thomas Hicks, Chairman of the United States Election Assistance Commission
Jessica Huseman, editorial director for VoteBeat
Hannah Wise, central region audience development editor for McClatchy and creator of Disability Matters, a toolkit to help newsrooms to better serve the disability community
Moderator: Wendy Lu, senior staff editor on the Flexible Editing desk at The New York Times and global speaker on disability representation in the media
