ABSTRACT
The challenge for a caring journalist is clear: produce enough stories that illuminate racial inequity, economic disparity and climate change to enlighten and mobilize public opinion to bring sufficient pressure on politicians, business leaders and other policy makers so they will move the ball perceptibly toward the goal of improvement and ultimately resolution. A publication of University of Georgia journalism students reported in October 2020 that in Athens, Georgia, two women seeking to ease the pain of the pandemic had created and found financing for an “Athens Community Fridge.” The NYPD was striving for change, for improvement, which is certainly commendable. But the ethics of care demands more. It demands evidence of change, of progress, of improvement.
