This section introduces you to additional stories that have been presented at the "Let's Do It Better!" Workshop at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.  The annual workshop, founded in 1999 and supported by a Ford Foundation grant, highlights best practices in newspapers and broadcast on the coverage of race and ethnicity. The award-winning journalists are invited to deconstruct their stories before a group of newspaper editors, news directors, executive producers and journalism educators each spring at the school.  The following newspaper stories are reprinted with permission.



Orphans of History
This special report by The Sacramento Bee in 2000 is an insightful narrative series on the Hmong people and their attempts to cope with American culture while trying to retain their own identity. Senior writer Stephen Magagnini received the American Society of Newspaper Editor's distinguished writing award for diversity for this series. Read his essay on writing Orphans of History. (Photo credit: Sacramento Bee/Anne Chadwick Williams)
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The New Faces of Wine
For generations, wine service has had a decidedly European bent, thanks to that continent's lineage of accomplished winemaking. Sommeliers -- those in charge of buying wines, crafting wine lists and recommending fine wines to diners -- were typically white men. No more. Many in the industry now say they are seeing more minority wine buyers, wine stewards and sommeliers. Carolyn Jung reports for The San Jose Mercury News. (Photo: Rick E. Martin/San Jose Mercury News)
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Walking Home
This two-part series by Barry Yeoman, freelance reporter and former reporter for The Independent, a weekly in Durham, N.C., highlights the lives, loves and tragedies within a rural Baptist congregation with a growing Latino population. (Photo credit: The Independent Weekly) Read Stories



Stories from The Authentic Voice
Read excerpts from stories highlighted in The Authentic Voice book and DVD. (Photo credit: Rogelio Solis/AP)