This course delves into the ways journalists can use their discipline and craft to address issues of inequality in America. It will empower students with critical perspectives and journalism skills for reporting on persistent systemic inequalities in the lives of people and their communities. In the continual crisis of truth, distrust, and objectivity in commercial news media, reporters and practitioners face heightened demands to comprehend and adeptly cover the intricate realities of communities marginalized by systems. Students will examine the influence of news media on inequality and define their roles as deft storytellers and discerning news consumers. Through collaboration, discussion, and reporting projects, students will explore structures of injustice in areas such as education, income, health, housing, voting, and the criminal legal system. They will gain knowledge, experiences, and skills, including in-depth reporting, investigative techniques, quality interviewing, data analysis, and narrative writing, to understand the layers of inequality in our society. Through community-first reporting in the city, students will practice journalism excellence, in a framework that reimagines journalism as a public good. In a culminating phase, students will report, produce, and design enterprise news stories, that include challenges and triumphs, to be published in a digital and print magazine for communities in the city. This course is designed for third- and fourth-year journalism and related majors with experience in research and storytelling. It satisfies the Reporting + Craft elective requirement for the Journalism + Design major and elective requirements for the Urban Studies, Environmental Studies, and Race and Ethnicity major and minor.