Advances in Social Behavior Research
ASBR ICEIPI 2022, 02 February 2023
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Is This a Story That Needs to Be Racialized? Difference in Coverage Assignments and its Influences
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Abstract
Increasing awareness of lack of diversity in newsroom has been widely seen at American news media. However, studies showed that recruiting minority journalists does not guarantee diverse voices or better working environment for minorities, due to administrative decisions, including assignment of topics based on a journalist’s race. In this study, the author reviews interviews with minority journalists in searching for effects of the influence of such practice, and finds that difference in topic assigning based on their races in the newsroom hinders minority journalists’ performance and perpetuates racial bias in readers.
Keywords
news coverage., Journalism, race, diversity, racial minority
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