Students Blogging About Health & How To Beat Obesity
A team of blogging schoolchildren may be the South Bronx’s newest weapon against diabetes and obesity.
The CUNY Graduate School of Journalism in Manhattan has been awarded a two-year, $50,000 grant to create blogs, interactive Web sites called wikis, and slide shows about the health crisis in the Bronx, focusing mostly on Hunts Point.
Graduate students will be guiding teams of students and community members from the South Bronx, who will write blogs about their lives and give tips to their neighbors on healthy eating and how to keep in shape using the resources of their community.
“Traditional consumer health journalism, with the detached voice of journalists and the middle-class experts they quote, is not a good vehicle for reaching the needy populations of the South Bronx,” said Trudy Lieberman, the school’s director of health and medicine reporting, who applied for the grant. “The top-down approach of traditional journalism is unlikely to be effective at getting overweight teens to lose weight and eat vegetables.”
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