The News Untold
eBook - ePub

The News Untold

Community Journalism and the Failure to Confront Poverty in Appalachia

  1. 252 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The News Untold

Community Journalism and the Failure to Confront Poverty in Appalachia

About this book

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. 

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Table of Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. 1. Poverty and Community Media in Rural Appalachia
  8. 2. Greenburg, Priorsville, and Deer Creek: Community Case Studies
  9. 3. Dominant Frames in Local Poverty Coverage
  10. 4. Pressures, Philosophies, and the Encoding of Media Messages
  11. 5. Decoding Poverty Coverage and Broader Images of Appalachia
  12. 6. How Local Media’s Silence Influences Views of Poverty
  13. Appendix A: Research Methodology
  14. Appendix B: Action Steps for Journalists
  15. Notes
  16. Bibliography
  17. Index