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I Marched for the Martin Luther King Holiday

1/15/12 9:53pm by Kim Pearson
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Early on the crisp, clear morning of January 15, 1981, I boarded a bus in Princeton, New Jersey bound for a demonstration in Washington, DC to make the birthdate of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. a national holiday. Via the Associated Press, the New York Times reported the next day that about 15,000 of us  "walked along Pennsylvania Avenue from the Capitol the Washington Monument, carrying signs that read, 'Let's make this day a day of celebration - Happy Birthday to Martin Luther King' and 'I Have a Dream - for Peace.'"  Read more >

Hillary Clinton's Next Act: Making Half the World's Leaders Women

12/20/11 1:00am by Kim Pearson
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The Women in Public Service Project, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's new initiative to shepherd a new generation of women into politics and policymaking around the globe, could prove to be the most significant public diplomacy move since the Kennedy Administration launched the Peace Corps fifty years ago.  Read more >

With Its "Occupy" Coverage, Has Storify Become the "Backbone of News?"

12/12/11 1:02pm by Kim Pearson
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About 15 years ago, the late legal scholar and civil rights attorney Derrick Bell published an allegorical tale about an uprising among women across the US that took the form of a mass simultaneous street performance of the electric slide.  Read more >

A Rough-Hewn Kind of Beauty

8/3/11 6:49am by Kim Pearson
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Some months ago, a phone conversation with my BlogHer colleague Rita Arens turned toward my experience of having ankylosing spondylitis, an arthritic condition that froze my spine over the course of 30 years, first into a ramrod pole and now into a shepherd's crook. With her encouragement, I jabbered on about how, along the way, I've loved and lost, borne and raised two children, managed a career and had bi-lateral hip replacements - two surgeries - a week apart, followed by single doses of radiation. Then Rita suggested that my story would be a good addition to the "Own Your Beauty" series.That shut me up.  Read more >

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While most of this blog is devoted to my research in computational journalism and trends in journalism education, I occasionally do some storytelling of my own.

Interactive Journalism Institute for Middle Schoolers

This site contains information about our research on using interactive journalism to introduce computer science into the middle school curriculum.

CPATH: Distributed Expertise

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Full Name
Kim Pearson
Member Since
January 2006
About Me: 

I started out as a wee child with a love of magazines -- the old fashioned magazines with really good writing, such as Saturday Review or really powerful photoessays, such as Look., and of course, Ebony.  Because it was the 60s, and I was a little urban black girl from a working-class family with middle-class aspirations, these magazines were in our homes, and public affairs show were constantly on our television. I started writing essays when I was eight years old and thought that one day I would be like James Baldwin, facing down William F. Buckley and cutting him to quick with my rhetorical brilliance. This of course was after I inferred that becoming an astronaut was probably out of the question (which I why I cried when Mae Jemison went up on the space shuttle.) Well, I never wrote for Norman Cousins, but I have written for a bunch of other magazines, and while I didn't become an astronaut, I have been a science writer. In addition, I teach writing for journalism and interactive multimedia at The College of New Jersey.I used to blog at Professor Kim's News Notes; now I write about my research at KimPearson.net. In my BlogHer posts for the law and journalism/media sections, I'm likely to pick up on issues involving civil rights, civil liberties the evolving business trends in the media business. I'm also interested in how members of under-represented groups gain access to the public square. Enough about me -- I look forward to your ideas, critiques and leads!

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College professor
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NJ
BlogHer Conference '06: 
I attended
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