[Will Schick, Street Sense Media’s editor-in-chief and a Marine Corps veteran] was a 2021-2022 Poynter-Koch fellow, a program I run for Poynter, and he has two fellows in our current class. At the end of his fellowship, he pitched an idea that the journalism industry needs — a guide to covering homelessness.
Now, it’s out in its first iteration, and it aims to challenge assumptions (including that everyone experiencing homelessness is an addict), offer guidance on language and help journalists think through how to better cover a story that exists in almost every community.
