=== Changing the Face of Journalism ===
The nation and its news media are going in opposite directions, and the public is paying the price. Dori Maynard wrote this in 2013. She was following up on her point that although people of color makeup nearly 40 percent of the US population, while only about 12 percent of full-time daily news journalists are people of color. Her who’s an award-winning African American journalist. Maynard became a Nieman fellow at Harvard University in 1993. Given that all the choices are accurate, she was involved with the Maynard Institute, a journalism-education institute in Oakland, California. Conversely, the organization is dedicated to recruiting and training people of color to become journalists. By the time Dori Maynard became president of the institute in 2001, she was already passionately committed to this mission. Diversity among journalists in the United States must increase, Maynard believed, if the industry is going to meet its ethical obligation to provide a wide audience credible and accurate news. She argued that a reporter’s cultural background inevitably influences his or her perspective on current events. More diversity in newsrooms will naturally lead to more complete, nuanced, and sensitive news coverage of all communities, specifically communities of color expressly. Under Dori Maynard’s leadership, the Maynard Institute trained hundreds of minority reporters. The institute also has helped them get hired and heard. Many former trainees now report for influential newspapers such as the New York Times and the Washington Post. Dori Maynard helped show the journalism industry that presenting the culturally diverse voices of the United States through inclusive news stories written by people of color is possible.
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=== The Scientific Approach of al-Idrisi ===
and cosmopolitan travelers. By comparing sources, al-Idrisi could judge scholars in King Roger’s court.
H. started work on the map when he was forty years old.
J. studied as many existing maps as he could.
their accuracy. If multiple sources agreed on things—the route of a river, for instance—it was likely true. If sources disagreed, likewise, al-Idrisi sought the truth, he dispatched a research expedition to the area in question. Al-Idrisi brought a similarly logical approach for the positioning to locations on his map. Most mapmakers at the time arranged cities, mountains, and other features, on their maps quite haphazardly. But al-Idrisi, informed by the work of the best Arab and Greek scientists, lay out the sites on his map using astronomical coordinates. After fifteen years of the daily grind, al-Idrisi completed his project. The final products included: a two-meter-wide silver disk engraved with a world map, an atlas containing seventy detailed regional maps, and a lengthy descriptive text. The maps were of a quality and accuracy unparalleled at the time. They noted the source of the Nile River—in Africa’s equatorial highlands—and the writer wants to emphasize that the inclusion of the source of the Nile River on al-Idrisi’s maps represented a notable achievement. Which choice most effectively accomplishes this goal? used a sophisticated method of depicting the earth’s round shape on a flat map. Unfortunately, the maps never circulated widely. Moreover, the text wasn’t translated from Arabic for hundreds of years. It would be the twentieth century before al-Idrisi’s work received the appreciation it deserved.