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- Title
Content with Diversity: An interview and textual analysis based on the Huffington Post crowdfunded Ferguson coverage.
- Authors
DELVA, JOHN
- Abstract
The death of Michael Brown, by gunfire on August 9, 2014, became part of a growing news coverage of police brutality against blacks. Activists, victims' families and their supporters had long been sounding the alarm about the differences of life quality and social treatment in the U.S. along racial lines. One of the institutions called to look at its own practices over the past decades has been the media. Investigating the inequitable representation of minorities in media companies leads to questions about discrepancies between the companies' practices, progressive on the surface, and the resulting journalistic content. Do inclusive hiring practices foster progressive content? How can an organization implement progressive hiring practices when such an initiative may be outside of its traditional way of operating? Based on textual analysis of a reporter's crowdfunded work for news website The Huffington Post and an interview with the journalist, this paper's main argument is the following: a newsroom's progressive hiring practice can result in the creation of progressive content, but these practices are subject to challenges on the part of the organization and of the reporter. In this present study, this means that the news organization had to realize its shortcomings and be willing to tackle them. For the reporter, obstacles came in the form of the journalist's blind spots and the personal emotional strife that her work caused.
- Subjects
CONTENT analysis; HUFFINGTON Post (Web resource); BROWN, Michael, 1996-2014
- Publication
Sur le Journalisme, About Journalism, Sobre Jornalismo, 2017, Vol 6, Issue 1, p116
- ISSN
2295-0710
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.25200/slj.v6.n1.2017.294