News of Baltimore Race, Rage and the City [Hardcover]

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?

Foreword

1. News of Baltimore: Journalism and public expression about a citys problems

2. Renewing the Lease: How News Characterizations of Baltimore Realigned White Reign of US Cities

3. Local news framing of Baltimore as a segregated market

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

6. Its not a pretty picture: Visualizing the Baltimore crisis on social media