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Your Call Weekly Kudos: July 24, 2015

Every week on Your Call's Friday Media Roundtable, we ask the journalists on our panel to recommend great reporting they've seen this week.

Guests:

Maya Schenwar, editor-in-chief of Truthout, and the author of Locked Down, Locked Out: Why Prison Doesn’t Work and How We Can Do Better gave kudos to MSNBC's Melissa Harris-Perry for her coverage of Obama's prison visit. She also wanted to give kudos to her colleague,Dan Berger, for his continued coverage of prison reform.

Eric Markowitz, senior writer at International Business Times' mentioned fellow IB Times writer Sal Rodriguez for his article about diversity in Silicon Valley. Also, Eric discussed the Atlantic's piece on the bounty-hunting industry. 

Omoyele Sowore, founder and publisher of SaharaReporters.com gave kudos to DemocracyNow!'s coverage of the alleged suicide of Sandra Bland.

What stories impressed you this week?