News of Baltimore: Race, Rage and the City

ISBN-13: 9780367877705 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 280 str.

Linda Steiner; Silvio Waisbord

Opis

This book examines how the media approached long-standing and long-simmering issues of race, class, violence, and social responsibility in Baltimore during the demonstrations, violence, and public debate in the spring of 2015.

Spis treści

Foreword

Jane Rhodes

1. News of Baltimore: Journalism and public expression about a city’s problems

Linda Steiner and Silvio Waisbord

Part I. News and the Politics of Place

2. Renewing the Lease: How News Characterizations of Baltimore Realigned White Reign of US Cities

Robert Gutsche and Carolina Estrada

3. Local news framing of Baltimore as a segregated market

Andrew Rojecki

4. The sociological eye in the news: Covering West Baltimore in the aftermath of the death of Freddie Gray

Silvio Waisbord, Eissa Saeed, and Tina Tucker

5. Order in Baltimore? On Place-Frames in US Journalism

Barbie Zelizer

Part II. Voices, Visibility and the Public Sphere

6. It’s not a pretty picture’: Visualizing the Baltimore crisis on social media

Stuart Allan and Lina Dencik

7. Black agency in the production of counter-narratives of police brutality.

Ashley Howard

8. The Black Press and Baltimore: The continuing importance of African American journalism during urban uprisings

Sarah Jackson

9. Who Killed Freddie Gray?: The Video that Started It All

Khadijah Costley White

Part III. Journalistic Discourse and Criticism

10. Historical discontinuities in news coverage of the Baltimore 2015 riots and the 1965 Watts riots

Bonnie Brennen

11. Journalists as victims and perpetrators of violence

Matt Carlson

12. Who speaks for the "real" Baltimore?: How journalists understood their authority and ability to represent "place" during the 2015 unrest

Katy June-Friesen

13. "I don’t want him to be a Freddie Gray": The Hero Mom on Trial

Linda Steiner and Carolyn Bro

O autorze

Linda Steiner is Professor in the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland, USA

Silvio Waisbord is Professor in the School of Media and Public Affairs at The George Washington University, USA