Within the veil : black journalists, white media / / Pamela Newkirk

• Autore: Newkirk Pamela
• Pubblicazione: New York, : New York University Press, c2000
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (292 p.)
• Disciplina: 070/.89/96073
• Soggetto topico: African American journalists; African Americans in the newspaper industry; African Americans - Press coverage
• Soggetto non controllato: African; American; across; coverage; equitable; journalists; minorities; more; newsrooms; pursuit; racial; struggle; they; trials; triumps
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-235) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: CONTENTS; Foreword by Derrick Bell; Acknowledgments; Preface; Timeline; ONE Within the Veil; TWO Into the Mainstream: A History of Strife; THREE The Bumpy Road into the Newsroom; FOUR Slaying the Dragon; FIVE Private Dilemmas, Public Strife; SIX Double Standards and the "Double-Special Burden"; SEVEN The Kerner Legacy; Appendix; Notes; Index; About the Author
• Sommario/riassunto: Winner of the National Press Club Prize for Media Criticism. Companion website: http://www.nyupress.nyu.edu/authors/veil.html. Thirty years ago, the Kerner Commission Report made national headlines by exposing the consistently biased coverage afforded African Americans in the mainstream media. While the report acted as a much ballyhooed wake-up call, the problems it identified have stubbornly persisted, despite the infusion of black and other racial minority journalists into the newsroom. In Within the Veil, Pamela Newkirk unmasks the ways in which race continues to influence reportage, both o
• Titolo autorizzato: Within the veil
• ISBN: 0-8147-5913-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910783298403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II