Preserving the Community: Cleveland Black Papers' Response to the Great Migration

Ross, Felecia G. Jones

doi:10.1177/107769909407100305

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“…In 1827, for instance, Freedom's Journal criticized the New York Inquirer by arguing that the white newspaper's "object is to keep alive the prejudice of the whites against the coloured [sic] community" (Barrow 1978, p. 119). Other early and prominent African American newspapers, including the Chicago Defender and the Cleveland Gazette, played central roles in the Great Migration of African Americans from the rural south to the urban north (Krieling 1978;La Brie 1978;Strother 1978;Grossman 1989;Ross 1994). Even during the Great Depression African American newspapers continued to emerge and endure despite extraordinarily difficult economic conditions (Price-Spratlen 1999).…”

Section: African American Newspapersmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The Call and Post, as summarized by the Columbus News Index (Franklin County Public Libraries 1983-1994, was searched for the two years following the date of each m~r d e r .~ The Index includes a section "Murder and Attempted Murder," and stories are listed alphabetically using the victim's last and then first name. Using the homicide squad universe of occurrences as the starting point, the total number of stories about each murder was used to construct the first two dependent measures.…”

Section: Dependent Measuresmentioning

confidence: 99%

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News About Murder in an African American Newspaper: Effects of Relative Frequency and Race and Gender Typifications

Lundman

Douglass

Hanson³

2004

The Sociological Quarterly

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Previous scholarly research on selection bias in news about murder indicates that race and gender stereotypes and, to a much lesser extent, the relative frequency of particular murders explain why some homicides are made into news and others are not. However, previous research has directed nearly exclusive attention to white newspapers. The present rcsearch remedies this omission by directing attention to the factors that shape selection bias in news about murder in a big-city African American newspaper. The results indicate that the relative frequency dimension of newsworthiness is a weak and inconsistent explanation of selection bias in news about murder in the black newspaper examined. Race, however, has profoundly different effects in white and African American newspapers. Whereas white newspapers use long-standing race stereotypes to filter news about murder, the data from the African American newspaper signal a firm rejection of the black image in the white mind (Entman and Rojecki 2000). Newspaper images of women and men are another matter. In both black and white newspapers, gender stereotypes uniformly filter news about murder and fundamentally distort gender effects. The implications of these findings are discussed including the clear need and ample scholarly room for replicative analyses of news about murder in other African American newspapers, with a keen eye on both "raced ways of seeing" (Hunt 1999, pp. 181-215) and gendered ways of seeing.There is agreement in the scholarly literature that journalists sometimes assess the newsworthiness of particular homicides using the relative frequency or "novelty" (Meyers Direct all correspondence to Richard J. Lundman,

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Section: African American Newspapersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Dependent Measuresmentioning

confidence: 99%