News of Baltimore: Race, Rage and the City

✍ Scribed by Linda Steiner; Silvio Waisbrod

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 299
• Series: Routledge Research in Journalism
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book examines how the media approached long-standing and long-simmering issues of race, class, violence, and social responsibility in Baltimore during the demonstrations, violence, and public debate in the spring of 2015. Contributors take Baltimore to be an important place, symbol, and marker, though the issues are certainly not unique to Baltimore: they have crucial implications for contemporary journalism in the U.S. These events prompt several questions: How well did journalism do, in Baltimore, nearby and nationally, in explaining the endemic issues besetting Baltimore? What might have been done differently? What is the responsibility of journalists to anticipate and cover these problems? How should they cover social problems in urban areas? What do the answers to such questions suggest about how journalists should in future cover such problems?

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgements
Map 1: Sandtown-Winchester neighborhood
Map 2: The neighborhoods of Baltimore City
Foreword
1 News of Baltimore: Journalism and Public Expression About a City’s Problems
PART I: News and the Politics of Place
2 Renewing the Lease: How News Characterizations of Baltimore Realigned White Reign of US Cities
3 Racial Threat and Local Framing of Baltimore’s Unrest
4 The Sociological Eye in the News: Covering West Baltimore in the Aftermath of the Death of Freddie Gray
5 Order in Baltimore? On Place-Frames in US Journalism
PART II: Voices, Visibility and the Public Sphere
6 “It’s not a pretty picture”: Visualizing the Baltimore Crisis on Social Media
7 Linked Fates: Social Media as a Framing, Tactical and Witnessing Tool in the Black Lives Matter Movement
8 The Black Press and Baltimore: The Continuing Importance of African American Journalism During Urban Uprisings
9 The Case of “Misguided” “Thugs”: Baltimore Youth, Activism, and News
PART III: Journalistic Discourse and Criticism
10 Historical Continuities in News Coverage of the Baltimore 2015 Riots and the 1965 Watts Riots
11 Journalists as Victims and Perpetrators of Violence
12 Who Speaks for Baltimore? How Journalists Understood their Authority and Ability to Represent “Place” During the 2015 Unrest
13 “I don’t want him to be a Freddie Gray”: The Hero Mom on Trial
PART IV: Conclusion
14 Why Baltimore Matters: Lessons for Journalism Studies
Contributors
Index