{"id":210094,"date":"2023-09-27T12:42:07","date_gmt":"2023-09-27T16:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/?p=210094"},"modified":"2023-10-09T15:44:36","modified_gmt":"2023-10-09T19:44:36","slug":"disability-and-media-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/2023\/09\/27\/disability-and-media-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Disability and Media in India"},"content":{"rendered":"

School of Communication and Media<\/a> adjunct Jason Strother<\/a> began a two-week lecture tour of India as part of the U.S. State Department’s Speakers Program. He’s meeting with university students, journalists and advocates to discuss how people with a disability can be more accurately portrayed across all media \u2013 a topic he’s taught at Montclair since 2021.<\/p>\n

At ÌÇÐÄvlog, he’s created several electives for journalism and media students and taught courses on freelancing overseas, film criticism, and disability representation in mass media.<\/p>\n

Jason is on the advisory board of the National Center on Disability and Journalism at Arizona State University. He\u2019s reporting has received funding from the National Geographic Society, including a 2020 Explorer grant, a 2022 11th Hour Food and Farming Fellowship from UC Berkeley as well as the NJ Civic Information Consortium, which helped Jason launch Lens15 Media. In 2023, he will spend several months in India, Sri Lanka and the Maldives researching how climate change impacts people with disabilities as a US Fulbright scholar.<\/p>\n

Jason is a graduate of ÌÇÐÄvlog, where he earned a BA in broadcasting. He holds an MA in international relations from the University of Kent\u2019s Brussels School of International Studies. And in 2021, he was accepted into the third cohort of the Entrepreneurial Journalism Craters Program at CUNY\u2019s Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

with SCM Adjunct Professor Jason Strother<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":210095,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-announcements","category-235_school-of-communication-and-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210094"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210097,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210094\/revisions\/210097"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}