On this page you will find a sampling of resources related to Systemic Racism and News Media, broken down into the following sections:
Issues in Journalism and News Media: Accountability, Analysis, Citizen Journalism, Communication, Comparative Coverage, Crime Reporting, Digital Culture, Discourse Control, Framing, Hierarchy, Ideologies, Implicit Bias, Invisibility, Language, Linguistic Bias, Linguistic Representation, Mass Media, Missing-White-Woman Syndrome, News Production, Newsworthiness, Privilege, Protest Repression, Racial Stereotypes, Racialized Media, Representation, Rhetoric, Selection Bias, Social Media, Television News, Unconscious Bias, Victim Blaming, Visual Profiling, Visual Representation, White Nationalist Media
Keywords for Social Justice/Anti-Oppression Searches: Anti-Black, Association Between, Bias, Discrimination, Disparity, Disproportionate, Effect, Gap, High Rate, Impact, Inequity, Inequality, Institutionalized Racism, Oppression, Racial Inequity, Racist, Racism, Unconscious Bias, Violence, White Supremacy
Source: Vox. (2020, June 5). Protests aren't what they look like on TV. YouTube.https://youtu.be/srnA3cNTsXQ
Source: AJ+. (2022, July 19). Crime Reporting Makes Us Love The Cops. YouTube. https://youtu.be/Rou7IqZ_7Yw
Source: CNN. (2021, September 22). How 'missing White woman syndrome' has real life implications. YouTube. https://youtu.be/uBWyG09rAMc
Source: PBS NewsHour. (2019, August 4). How media coverage contributes to white supremacist rhetoric. YouTube. https://youtu.be/Mqe2vxxQMwc
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation. (2020, July 6). Unconscious Bias: do newsrooms struggle to report on race issues? YouTube. https://youtu.be/hvybXx0WjeY
Episode: Black Journalists Covering Race, Identity & Culture
Episode: Black and Missing
Episode: Policing the Press: A Journalist on the Frontlines
Episode: Violence Bait
Episode: Pushing Back Against Anti-Trans Media & Policies with Chase Strangio
Episode: Protests in Perspective
Episode: The Lies They Tell: Mass Media's Complicity in the Age of Disinformation
Episode:Journalists aren't as good at covering protests as they may believe
Episode: Racism, Atlanta, and the Race for a Narrative
Episode: The View From Everywhere
Episode: The Legacy of Rush Limbaugh
Episode: Inside the toxic mediasphere of Black exceptionalism
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