Hispanic Americans in the News in Two Southwestern Cities

The Barack Benefit? A Content Analysis of How News Coverage of America’s First African American Presidential Family Alters the Overall Presentation of Blacks in News

“…Another intriguing finding present within our study is that online coverage of Blacks in the news largely relies on the same stereotypic trait associations found by earlier analyses in print (Sorenson et al, 1998; Turk et al, 1989), cable (Dixon & Williams, 2015), and local TV news (Dixon & Linz, 2000; Entman, 1992; Gilliam & Iyengar, 2000; Romer et al, 1998). Prior research speculates that online news may contain more stereotypic portrayals of Blacks than offline (Melican & Dixon, 2008).…”

“…Print news was among the first to receive the attention of researchers (Dixon & Josey, 2013). Here, Blacks are rarely shown in sympathetic roles while being blamed for societal ills ( Sorenson et al, 1998;Turk et al, 1989). Despite the attention paid to print media by scholars, most investigations into Black stereotyping focus on televised crime news programming.…”

Stereotyping Online? Internet News, Social Media, and the Racial Typification of Crime

“…For instance, a study on homicide coverage in printed media found that victims who are white, younger, women, and of high socioeconomic status receive more coverage than victims who are black or Hispanic (Sorenson, Manz, and Berk 1998). In a similar study on Latino coverage in newspapers, Latinos were more likely, in comparison to whites, to dominate news stories involving crime and other problem issues (Turk et al 1989).…”

Black mayoral candidates and the press: Running for coverage

“…One selfstudy ("Does Your," 1990) showed most newspapers generally reflect a predominantly White, male readership. Some progress has been made (VanSlyke Turk et al, 1989), but complaints (Shaw, 1993) about coverage in general, and coverage of Black elected officials in particular (Moore, 1990), still exist.…”