Navigating White News : Asian American Journalists at Work

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Title: Navigating White News : Asian American Journalists at Work
Description: NCA Asian Pacific American Caucus & Communication Studies Division Outstanding Book Award Combining critical race studies with cultural production studies, Navigating White News: Asian American Journalists at Work is the only academic book to examine the ways that racial identification and activation matters in their understanding of news. This adds to the existing literature on race and the sociology of news by examining intra-racial differences in the ways they navigate and understand White newsrooms. Employing in-depth interviews with twenty Asian American journalists who are actively working in large and small newsrooms across the United States, Navigating White News: Asian American Journalists at Work argues that Asian American reporters for whom racial identities are important questioned what counted as news, questioned the implicitly White perspective of objectivity, and actively worked toward providing more complex, substantive coverage of Asian American communities. For Asian American reporters for whom racial identity was not meaningful, they were more invested in existing professional norms. Regardless, all journalists understood that news is a predominantly and culturally White institution.
Authors: David C Oh, Seong Jae Min
Resource Type: eBook.
Subjects: Asian Americans and mass media, Asian Americans--Race identity, Asian American professional employees, Mass media and race relations--United States, Journalism--United States--21st century, Asian American journalists, Asian Americans--Ethnic identity, Reporters and reporting--Social aspects--United States
Categories: SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Media & Communications, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / American / Asian American & Pacific Islander Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies
Database: eBook Collection (EBSCOhost)
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