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The News Untold: Community Journalism and the Failure to Confront Poverty in Appalachia
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2017
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West Virginia University Press
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Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Tankard Book Award winner
Weatherford Award winner, nonfiction
The News Untold offers an important new perspective on media narratives about poverty in Appalachia. It focuses on how small-town reporters and editors in some of the region’s poorest communities decide what aspects of poverty are news, how their audiences interpret those decisions, and how those two related processes help shape broader understandings of economic need and local social responsibility. Focusing on patterns of both media creation and consumption, The News Untold shows how a lack of constructive news coverage of economic need can make it harder for the poor to voice their concerns.
Critical and inclusive news coverage of poverty at the local level, Michael Clay Carey writes, can help communities start to look past old stereotypes and attitudes and encourage solutions that incorporate broader sets of community voices. Such an effort will require journalists and community leaders to reexamine some of the professional traditions and social views that often shape what news looks like in small towns.
Weatherford Award winner, nonfiction
The News Untold offers an important new perspective on media narratives about poverty in Appalachia. It focuses on how small-town reporters and editors in some of the region’s poorest communities decide what aspects of poverty are news, how their audiences interpret those decisions, and how those two related processes help shape broader understandings of economic need and local social responsibility. Focusing on patterns of both media creation and consumption, The News Untold shows how a lack of constructive news coverage of economic need can make it harder for the poor to voice their concerns.
Critical and inclusive news coverage of poverty at the local level, Michael Clay Carey writes, can help communities start to look past old stereotypes and attitudes and encourage solutions that incorporate broader sets of community voices. Such an effort will require journalists and community leaders to reexamine some of the professional traditions and social views that often shape what news looks like in small towns.
Table of Contents
Cover
Title Page, Copyright Page
pp. i-vi
Table of Contents
pp. vii-viii
Acknowledgments
pp. ix-x
1. Poverty and Community Media in Rural Appalachia
pp. 1-26
2. Greenburg, Priorsville, and Deer Creek: Community Case Studies
pp. 27-51
3. Dominant Frames in Local Poverty Coverage
pp. 52-88
4. Pressures, Philosophies, and the Encoding of Media Messages
pp. 89-130
5. Decoding Poverty Coverage and Broader Images of Appalachia
pp. 131-172
6. How Local Mediaâs Silence Influences Views of Poverty
pp. 173-194
Appendix A: Research Methodology
pp. 195-203
Appendix B: Action Steps for Journalists
pp. 204-216
Notes
pp. 217-226
Bibliography
pp. 227-236
Index
pp. 237-242
Backcover
| ISBN | 9781943665990 |
|---|---|
| Related ISBN(s) | 9781943665969, 9781943665976, 9781943665983 |
| MARC Record | Download |
| OCLC | 1011473118 |
| Pages | 252 |
| Launched on MUSE | 2017-12-06 |
| Language | English |
| Open Access | No |
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