Christopher P Campbell, Kim M Leduff, Cheryl D Jenkins, Rockell A Brown

Race and News

Critical Perspectives

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Race and News: Critical Perspectives offers essays and case studies that examine how issues related to race and racism are represented in contemporary news coverage in the United States. The first section of this text examines the journalistic routine how news organizations from newspapers to network news to new media make decisions about what, how, and why stories related are covered with (or without) relation to race. The second section is comprised of case studies exploring how coverage of national stories such as the election of Barack Obama, Hurricane Katrina, and immigrants rights has affected the national dialogue on race and racism. This book will be ideal for courses on race and news media, and it will also be valuable to professional journalists and journalism students who seek to improve the diversity and sensitivity of their journalistic practice.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. August 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9780415800976
• ISBN-10: 0415800978
• Artikelnr.: 29932931

Autorenporträt

Christopher P. Campbell is Professor and Director of the School of Mass Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern Mississippi. He is the author of Race, Myth and the News (Sage, 1995). Kim M. LeDuff is Associate Professor and Assistant Director at the School of Mass Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern Mississippi. Cheryl D. Jenkins is Assistant Professor at the School of Mass Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern Mississippi. Rockell A. Brown is Assistant Professor at the School of Communication at Texas Southern University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Part One: Race and the Journalistic Routine 1. Yes We Did?:
Race, Myth and the News Revisited2. Newsroom Diversity and Representations
of Race 3.Network News Coverage of Race in the Era of Obama 4.New News,
Hegemony and Representations of Black Male Athletes 5.From the Water Cooler
to the World Wide Web: Race and Audience Commentary on News Stories On-line
6.Ethnic News Media and Marginalization: African-American Newspaper
Coverage of the AIDS Crisis. Part Two: Covering Race: Contemporary Case
Studies7. Simple Incivility or Outright Racism? How Newspapers Covered Joe
Wilson's Outburst during Obama's Congressional Health Care Address 8.The
Real Price of Oppression: Fox News Coverage of the Virginia Tech Shooter
9.Nappy-Headed Hos: Media Framing, Blame Shifting and the Controversy over
Don Imus' Pejorative Language 10.Recoding New Orleans: Race, Representation
and When the Levees Broke 11.Localizing Terror, Creating Fear in Post 9/11
Local TV News 12.Reinterpreting Objectivity: Toward a Critical Approach to
News Consumption. Afterword: Rethinking the News: How American Journalism
Can Improve Coverage of Race and Racism