Usher News for the Rich, White, and Blue

How Place and Power Distort American Journalism
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-0-231-54560-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Usher, Nikki

Usher, Nik

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Zentralregierung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gewalt und Diskriminierung: Soziale Aspekte
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Journalismus & Presse
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Place, Power, and the Future of Journalism
1. Myths of Local News and Why Newspapers Matter, Anyway
2. News for (and by) the Rich and White
3. Journalism’s Big Sort: Is the News That’s Left Just News for the Left?
4. The Beltway Versus the Heartland, Embodied: The Case of Washington Correspondents
5. Place and the Limits of Digital Revenue: Goldilocks Newspapers and the Curse of Geography
6. The Counterpoint: The New York Times’ Chase for Global Readers
7. Blue News Surviving: The Big Sort in News Philanthropy
Conclusion: Place as the Way Forward
Appendix A: Methods
Appendix B: Extended Methods from Chapter 3
Appendix C: Extended Methods from Chapter 7
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Nikki Usher is an associate professor of journalism in the College of Media at the University of Illinois with affiliate appointments in communication and political science. She is the author of Making News at the “New York Times” (2014) and Interactive Journalism: Hackers, Data, and Code (2016).