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RACIAL PROFILING IN THE NEWSROOM
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Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly
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July 1, 2007
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Copyright informationCopyright Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Summer 2007. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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This article examines patterns of story assignments at a metropolitan daily newspaper. The study's content analysis documents a form of racial profiling in which African American reporters write stories mostly about minority issues, while white reporters write stories mostly about government and business. Interviews with journalists documented the widespread belief that experience as a member of a racial minority helps the newspaper provide better coverage of minority issues. However, journalists of all races spoke of racial diversity only when they were talking about minority reporters and minority-oriented topics. The hegemony of whiteness was such that none of the journalists appeared to ...
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