Within the Veil : Black Journalists, White Media / Pamela Newkirk.
2000
PN4882.5
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Title
Within the Veil : Black Journalists, White Media / Pamela Newkirk.
Author
Newkirk, Pamela, author.
ISBN
9780814759134
Published
New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2000]
Copyright
©2000
Language
English
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In English.
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10.18574/nyu/9780814759134.001.0001 doi
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PN4882.5
Dewey Decimal Classification
070/.89/96073
Summary
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 overtly and covertly. Newkirk charts a series of race-related conflicts at news organizations across the country, illustrating how African American journalists have influenced and been denied influence to the content, presentation, and very nature of news. Through anecdotes culled from interviews with over 100 broadcast and print journalists, Newkirk exposes the trials and triumphs of African American journalists as they struggle in pursuit of more equitable coverage of racial minorities. She illuminates the agonizing dilemmas they face when writing stories critical of blacks, stories which force them to choose between journalistic integrity, their own advancement, and the almost certain enmity of the black community. Within the Veil is a gripping front-line report on the continuing battle to integrate America's newsrooms and news coverage.
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Bell, Derrick, contributor.
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
CONTENTS
FOREWORD
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
CONTENTS
FOREWORD
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