The education-related coverage is also an expression of her interest in broadening journalism’s definition of expert sources to include more so-called “real people,” including students, parents, and community members.
“I think there’s this tendency in journalism to narrow down who we consider experts,” Fernandes told me. “But if we just expanded the person who has the problem into the person who might have solutions to the problem, it would change the frame of how we reported education.”
“I think there’s this tendency in journalism to narrow down who we consider experts.”