Ethical Inquiry in the Community
The Hillman Student Interns are teaming up with the Greencastle and DePauw community to highlight the expertise and experience of faculty members, community leaders and proactive students on topical ethical issues.
The interviews featured offer original, first-hand insight into many of today's most pressing ethical dilemmas. If you or someone you know would like to be interviewed, please contact us at prindleinstitute@depauw.edu.
Interview with Keith Woods on "The Ethics of Life-Writing" (Mar. 6, 2012)
"The Power of the Personal Essay"
MARCH 6, 2012 at The Prindle Institute
Keith Woods is NPR's Vice President for Diversity in News and Operations. He is a former reporter, editor and editorial writer for the New Orleans Times-Picayune.
Woods is a masterful essayist. He writes about race and race relations with a caring and compelling voice. He embraces complexity and he challenges with passion, not poison. He takes us into the New Orleans neighborhoods where he grew up, and he explores the dynamics of his family to help us recognize our own families.
Woods came to NPR after 15 years at the Poynter Institute, the nation's leading training center for professional journalists, the last five as its dean of faculty. He has taught writing and reporting on race relations, ethics and diversity at Poynter, and was previously the Institute's director of diversity. Woods regularly writes on race and media and is the co-author of The Authentic Voice: The Best Reporting on Race and Ethnicity.