LIFT Lecture Series
Our research has conducted many content analyses and audits of news coverage, assessing news patterns and trends of some of the most consequential events of our time. In those analyses, visual journalists tend to be the mold breakers. The overall patterns they produce defy the stereotypical narratives we often find winding through written prose. As such, this semester, we started a LIFT Lecture Series, bringing Michigan’s practicing visual journalists to our classrooms to meet with students, to discuss the challenges and triumphs of being a photojournalist, and to work with students to build the next generation of change makers.
ELAINE CROMIE
We were honored to host Elaine Cromie, Detroit-based photo editor and photojournalist who directs visual journalism for Chalkbeat and Votebeat non-profit news orgs. Previously, Cromie worked as an independent visual journalist contributing to publications including The New York Times, TIME, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, NPR, Rolling Stone Magazine, Politico, Detroit Free Press and others. Born and raised in Colorado to a mixed Uchinaanchu and Puerto Rican family, Elaine is a graduate from University of Colorado Boulder with a degree journalism. https://www.elainecromie.com/
Elaine worked with students on enviromental portraits on campus, focusing on early voters & those who have helped make early voting possible. Here are a few of the images they produced.
