[PDF] The People Are The News eBook

Author : Juan González
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 28,70 MB
Release : 2011-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1844676870

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A landmark narrative history of American media that puts race at the center of the story. Here is a new, sweeping narrative history of American news media that puts race at the center of the story. From the earliest colonial newspapers to the Internet age, America’s racial divisions have played a central role in the creation of the country’s media system, just as the media has contributed to—and every so often, combated—racial oppression. News for All the People reveals how racial segregation distorted the information Americans received from the mainstream media. It unearths numerous examples of how publishers and broadcasters actually fomented racial violence and discrimination through their coverage. And it chronicles the influence federal media policies exerted in such conflicts. It depicts the struggle of Black, Latino, Asian, and Native American journalists who fought to create a vibrant yet little-known alternative, democratic press, and then, beginning in the 1970s, forced open the doors of the major media companies. The writing is fast-paced, story-driven, and replete with memorable portraits of individual journalists and media executives, both famous and obscure, heroes and villains. It weaves back and forth between the corporate and government leaders who built our segregated media system—such as Herbert Hoover, whose Federal Radio Commission eagerly awarded a license to a notorious Ku Klux Klan organization in the nation’s capital—and those who rebelled against that system, like Pittsburgh Courier publisher Robert L. Vann, who led a remarkable national campaign to get the black-face comedy Amos ’n’ Andy off the air. Based on years of original archival research and up-to-the-minute reporting and written by two veteran journalists and leading advocates for a more inclusive and democratic media system, News for All the People should become the standard history of American media.

Author : Joseph E. Uscinski
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 15,52 MB
Release : 2014-02-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0814760333

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- "Required reading for anyone concerned about news media's role in American society." - Scott McClurg, Professor of Political Science, Souther Illinois University "Makes a convincing case that the U.S. news media provides the public with what it wants rather than what it needs." - Michael Delli Carpini, Dean, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania

Author : Ruth Palmer
Publisher :
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 22,65 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Attribution of news
ISBN : 9780231183154

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Becoming the News studies how ordinary people make sense of their experience as media subjects. Ruth Palmer charts the arc of the experience of "making" the news, from the events that bring an ordinary person to journalists' attention through their interactions with reporters and reactions to the news coverage and its aftermath.

Author : Grant Pick
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 26,72 MB
Release : 2008-01-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0810124459

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This distinctive collection features writings from Grant Pick’s long, distinguished career in literary journalism. Pick had a uniquely open eye and ear for people who were in difficult situations, doing extraordinary things, or both. Most of his stories focus on interesting but overlooked Chicagoans, like the struggling owner of a laundrymat on the west side or the successful doctor who, as he faced his own death from cancer, strove to enlighten his colleagues in the field of medicine. As only a lifetime Chicagoan could, he described in tender detail the worlds in which people lived or worked, providing a look not just at one city’s citizens but at humanity as a whole. Pick’s widow and son curate this showcase of some of his most well-remembered work, such as “The Rag Man of Lincoln Park” and “Brother Bill.” In these and all of his other works, Pick wrote from the front lines, speaking to people whom others might encounter everyday but never really see. He faithfully characterized his subjects, never denying them dignity or value and never judging them. In the mirror he held up to his city, Chicago could see the shared humanity of all its citizens.

Author : Lynn Schofield Clark
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 33,94 MB
Release : 2017-09-21
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1107190606

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This book examines youth media practices on social media, introducing the concept of connective journalism as a precursor to collective political action.

Author : Don Heider
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 36,55 MB
Release : 2014-04-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1135662150

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Is TV news racist? If the purpose of local news is to cover individual communities and to present issues of interest and concern to local audiences, why are local newscasts so similar in markets around the country? These are the questions that motivated Heider's research, leading to the development of this book. Recognizing that local news is the outlet through which most people get their news, Heider ventured into the local television newsrooms in two moderate-size, culturally diverse U.S. markets to observe the news process. In this report, he uses his insider's perspective to examine why local television news coverage of people of color does not occur in more meaningful ways. Heider examines the perceptions of racism and ethnicity, and addresses such dichotomies as "white" news (content determined by white managers) being delivered by non-white news anchors, thus giving the appearance of "non-white" news. He also considers how coverage of minorities influences viewers' perceptions of their minority neighbors. Heider then sets forth a new theoretical concept--incognizant racism--as a way of explaining how news workers consistently ignore news in significant portions of the communities they cover. This contribution to the minorities and media discussion provides important insights into the newsroom decision-making process and the sociology and structure of newsrooms. It is required reading for all who are involved in news reporting, mass communication, media and minority studies, and cultural issues in today's society.

Author : Yvonne Ventresca
Publisher : Lucent Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 31,32 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Singers
ISBN : 9781590189320

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Since Avril Lavigne received a record contract at sixteen, she has struggled to maintain her individualism while creating music that resonates, particularly with young people, worldwide. This factual account covers the major events in her life from childhood to her current recordings and movie projects.

Author : Craig M. Allen
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 39,60 MB
Release : 2001-02-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780813812076

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"News Is People is the first in-depth account of local TV news that takes readers behind the scenes of more than 50 years of broadcasting." "As local stations continue to invest resources in meeting their audiences' needs, local newscasts continue to expand and gain public approval, giving them an edge over network news. At the same time, viewers continue to lose confidence in network news. News Is People reveals the power of public opinion to shape mass media." "Media students, professionals, and viewers will benefit from this account of the history behind the primary source of news for an estimated 150 million Americans."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : David T. Z. Mindich
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 14,10 MB
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0195161408

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Illuminating the decline in informed citizenship, "Tuned Out" is an insightful exploration of the generations of Americans who have turned their backs on serious news.

Author : Nikki Usher
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 18,48 MB
Release : 2021-07-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0231545606

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As cash-strapped metropolitan newspapers struggle to maintain their traditional influence and quality reporting, large national and international outlets have pivoted to serving readers who can and will choose to pay for news, skewing coverage toward a wealthy, white, and liberal audience. Amid rampant inequality and distrust, media outlets have become more out of touch with the democracy they purport to serve. How did journalism end up in such a predicament, and what are the prospects for achieving a more equitable future? In News for the Rich, White, and Blue, Nikki Usher recasts the challenges facing journalism in terms of place, power, and inequality. Drawing on more than a decade of field research, she illuminates how journalists decide what becomes news and how news organizations strategize about the future. Usher shows how newsrooms remain places of power, largely white institutions growing more elite as journalists confront a shrinking job market. She details how Google, Facebook, and the digital-advertising ecosystem have wreaked havoc on the economic model for quality journalism, leaving local news to suffer. Usher also highlights how the handful of likely survivors—well-funded media outlets such as the New York Times—increasingly appeal to a global, “placeless” reader. News for the Rich, White, and Blue concludes with a series of provocative recommendations to reimagine journalism to ensure its resiliency and its ability to speak to a diverse set of issues and readers.