By Brie Zeltner Three UHMP students racked up a bevy of firsts this December when they traveled to Philadelphia with our staff for the Sozosei Foundation’s Second Annual Summit to Decriminalize Mental Illness. First time covering a conference in person. First time out of state. First time staying alone in a fancy hotel room. First...
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From Super Bowls to the Bulls, UHMP board member covered them all but said education is most important
By Aileen Delgado After a 25 year journalism career covering some of sports’ highest-profile events and winning two Emmys, Dyrol Joyner joined Urban Health Media Project’s Board of Directors in December 2020. Joyner, 62, covered Stanley Cup Finals, Super Bowls, and four NBA championships, including three of the Chicago Bulls six championships in the '90s....
From a Harvard psychologist-instructor to Howard Dean, our students are getting well-connected
A Message From Our Co-Founder By Jayne O'Donnell My 35-plus years as a reporter did not make me a great fundraiser. (I’m learning, though!) But I am a good connector and few things make me happier than connecting UHMP students to people who are already succeeding in fields that students hope to enter. Or alumni...
UHMP welcomes new staffers
By Hermes Falcon Urban Health Media Project Two media veterans and three new faces have been added to the expanding UHMP team. In July, Julianne Hill, whose work has appeared in outlets such as NPR, PBS, Chicago Public Radio, and ABA Journal, joined as managing editor of content and programs, and Cynthia Robinson, who has...
After five months of Therapy (Thursday), UHMP and viewers say it’s working
They gain valuable advice on when and how to seek, give help In May 2021, UHMP introduced “Therapy Thursdays,” half-hour discussions with mental health experts and people with lived experience livestreamed on our Instagram account. Our students and interns have moderated conversations with a wide range of top-notch experts ranging from Washington, D.C.-area school psychologists,...
Content & Programs Update: Fall 2021
A lot has happened since our last update over the summer, with new programs launching, stories published and a whole new crop of interns hired. Here are some of C&P’s highlights: Delivered two summer community health storytelling “bootcamps,” for 12 students new to journalism, with uniformly positive feedback-- the students’ only complaint was that they...
Message from our CEO
It is such a pivotal time in the Urban Health Media Project’s history. Our student-instructor teams covered mental health and social justice work by youth leaders in six cities under a new content partnership with the nonprofit America’s Promise Alliance. Another UHMP team will cover the December annual meeting of the Sozosei Foundation, a new...
Health Journalism At Richard Wright Public Charter School
Students at Richard Wright Public Charter School for Journalism and Media Arts had the opportunity to learn about journalism this academic school year in a new way. The Urban Health Media Project partnered with Richard Wright to co-instruct a journalism course on health issues that helped students acquire skills such as interviewing, writing, creating visuals...
Therapy, peer support important for teen mental health post-pandemic
Sierra Lewter Urban Health Media Project Zoom is not the same as Netflix. After a full year of online school, many tech-savvy students are facing burnout from technology. Society’s constant demands for achievement did not stop as a result of the pandemic. If anything, students were expected to work harder and produce more, which led...
Content & Programs Update– Summer 2021
Our Spring workshop, “Home Sick: How Where We Live Impacts Health,” was a big success, with 19 students from seven cities producing five high-quality feature stories on the health effects of homelessness, lead poisoning, unaffordable housing and neighborhood-level violence. All but one of the stories have been published. (We’re still looking for a Miami-area publisher,...