| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 299 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction -- PART I: A New Framework for Covering Race -- Chapter 1 The Individual in Context -- Sally Lehrman and Venise Wagner -- Chapter 2 Structural Racism -- Alden Loury -- Chapter 3 The Accumulation and Disaccumulation of Opportunity -- Michael Brown, Martin Carnoy, Elliot Currie, Troy Duster, David Oppenheimer, Majorie M. Shultz, and David Wellman An excerpt from White Washing Race. -- Chapter 4 Implicit Bias -- Satia A. Marotta, Simon Howard and Samuel R. Sommers -- Chapter 5 The Colorblind Conundrum -- Sally Lehrman and Venise Wagner -- PART II: How Opportunity Works -- Chapter 6 Reporting the Story Upstream -- Sally Lehrman and Venise Wagner -- Chapter 7 The Opportunity Index -- Sally Lehrman and Venise Wagner -- PART III: Best Practices -- Chapter 8 Interviewing Across Difference -- Omedi Ochieng -- Chapter 9 Avoiding Stereotypes and Stigma -- Sue Ellen Christian -- Chapter 10 Using Fault Lines in Reporting -- Marquita S. Smith -- Chapter 11 Building Relationships in Under-covered Communities -- Keith Woods -- Box: The Chicken and the Listening Post -- Angie Chuang -- PART IV: Case Studies -- Chapter 12 Case Studies Introduction -- Case Study A Reporting Opportunity in Health -- Sally Lehrman -- Case Study B Sometimes School Segregation Comes From Race Neutral Policies -- Venise Wagner -- Case Study C Exploring the Wealth/Income Gap -- Jeff Kelly Lowenstein -- Case Study D When Housing Separates Us -- Nikole Hannah-Jones -- Case Study E Gaps in the Social Safety Net -- Karen de S -- Case Study F The Path to Legal Status Isnt So Clear Cut -- Susan Ferriss -- Resources -- Index |
| Summary |
Under increasingly intense newsroom demands, reporters often find it difficult to cover the complexity of topics that deal with racial and social inequality. This path-breaking book lays out simple, effective reporting strategies that equip journalists to investigate disparity's root causes. Chapters discuss how racially disparate outcomes in health, education, wealth/income, housing, and the criminal justice system are often the result of inequity in opportunity and also provide theoretical frameworks for understanding the roots of racial inequity. Examples of model reporting from ProPublica, the Center for Public Integrity, and the San Jose Mercury News showcase best practice in writing while emphasizing community-based reporting. Throughout the book, tools and practical techniques such as the Fault Lines framework, the Listening Post and the authors' Opportunity Index and Upstream-DownstreamFramework all help journalists improve their awareness and coverage of structural inequity at a practical level. For students and journalists alike, Reporting Inequality is an ideal resource for understanding how to cover structures of injustice with balance and precision |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 13, 2019) |
| Subject |
Racism in mass media.
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Journalism -- Technique
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Journalism -- Political aspects -- United States -- History
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Journalism -- Objectivity -- United States
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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Racism in mass media
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Journalism -- Technique
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Ethnic relations -- Press coverage
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Journalism -- Objectivity
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Journalism -- Political aspects
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Race relations -- Press coverage
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Race relations -- Press coverage
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United States -- Ethnic relations -- Press coverage
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| Subject |
United States
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Lehrman, Sally, editor.
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Wagner, Venise, editor.
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| LC no. |
2019013664 |
| ISBN |
9781315725123 |
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1315725126 |
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9781317533016 |
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1317533011 |
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