Race and Ethnicity in local Television News: Framing, Story Assignments, and Source Selections

Race, Ethnicity, and Student Sources: Minority Newsmakers in Student-Produced Versus Professional TV News Stories

“…Once data from the student-produced stories were collected, they were directly compared with findings from Poindexter et al (2003). That study analyzed local television newscasts from 26 stations in 12 cities in different geographical regions around the United States over an 11-year period (between 1987 and 1998).…”

Media Exposure and Racialized Perceptions of Inequities in Criminal Justice

“…2017, 6, 67 4 of 22 often framed in ways that characterize black and Latino/a victims and offenders as menacing, aggressive, and undeserving relative to whites (Gilliam and Iyengar 2000;Washington and Wright 2015). When the media gives attention to African Americans, they are four times more likely than Whites to be portrayed as criminal suspects rather than as victims of crime (Chiricos and Eschholz 2002;Poindexter et al 2003). We suspect that these racialized depictions would play a significant role in shaping beliefs about racialized criminological events such as the Zimmerman/Martin incident (Surette 1998).…”

Testimonioas Praxis for a Reimagined Journalism Model and Pedagogy

“…Seeking sources directly from racial and ethnic communities was an imperative way Chicana/o journalists wanted to counteract the absence of these groups in mainstream news media (Heider, 2000;National Association of Hispanic Journalists, 2006;Poindexter, Smith, & Heider, 2003). This resolution further functions to legitimize the communal, cultural, collective, and historical knowledge inherent in communities that are often framed by reporters, pundits, and academicians as inferior, pathological, or deficient.…”

“…Despite the seemingly contrasting paradigms of journalism and testimonio, Chicana/o journalism students developing a raced-and-gendered-conscious journalism practice have reconciled the two approaches by incorporating the epistemology and methodology of a Chicana feministinspired testimonio as a viable platform from which to fashion journalistic techniques, values, and processes that better correspond to the multiple oppressions racially marginalized communities experience that mainstream news media outlets disregard or discredit (Mize & Leedham, 2000;National Association of Hispanic Journalists, 2006;Poindexter, Smith, & Heider, 2003;RivasRodriguez, 1998). This essay chronicles the way this type of testimonio informs the newswriting and newsgathering efforts of alternative student journalists by analyzing three elements: the ways the activist-practitioners make sense of their practice, the interviewing and editing techniques employed by these alternative correspondents, and the content published by these politicized reporters.…”