Antiracist Journalism

The Challenge of Creating Equitable Local News

Andrea Wenzel (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

304 Seiten

2023
Columbia University Press (Verlag)
978-0-231-20968-7 (ISBN)

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Across the United States, newsrooms are grappling with systemic racism in their organizations and the media industry. Many have implemented diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives or made other attempts to confront past and present biases in pursuit of greater equity. Are such efforts merely performative, or are any transforming norms and power structures? What would it take to hold newsrooms truly accountable?

Andrea Wenzel provides a critical look at how local media organizations in the Philadelphia area are attempting to address structural racism. She focuses on two established, majority-white newsrooms, the Philadelphia Inquirer and the public radio station WHYY, and two start-ups where at least half the staff identify as Black, Indigenous, or people of color (BIPOC), Resolve Philly and Kensington Voice. Drawing on more than five years of field research, Wenzel charts how these outlets have pursued a range of interventions—such as tracking the diversity of sources, examining reporting and editing practices, and working with community members to gain input—to varying degrees of success. Wenzel argues that institutional and systemic transformation will be possible only through the establishment of structures that facilitate holding those with more power responsible for listening to and addressing the needs and concerns of those with less. Offering recommendations for building infrastructure that enables sustainable accountability, Antiracist Journalism is an important book for everyone interested in making local journalism more equitable.

Andrea Wenzel is an associate professor at Temple University. She is the author of Community-Centered Journalism: Engaging People, Exploring Solutions, and Building Trust (2020). A former journalist, she cofounded the Germantown Info Hub and has been a fellow with Columbia University’s Tow Center for Digital Journalism.

Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Case for Reimagining
1. Repairing and Reimagining a More Public Media
2. Repairing and Reimagining an “Antiracist” Legacy Newspaper
3. Institutionalizing Accountability Infrastructure
4. Imagining a Community-Centered Wire Service
5. Imagining Community-Governed Service Journalism
6. External Support for Equitable Local Journalism
Conclusion: Transforming Through Process and Infrastructure, Not Projects and Destinations
Appendix: Methods
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	27.09.2023
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Journalistik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-231-20968-1 / 0231209681
ISBN-13	978-0-231-20968-7 / 9780231209687
Zustand	Neuware