Navigating White News

Asian American Journalists at Work

David C Oh, Seong Jae Min

• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN:
  9781978831421
  9781978831438
• eBook ISBN:
  9781978831445
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Media & Communications Industry
• Index: Social Sciences

NCA Asian Pacific American Caucus & Communication Studies Division Outstanding Book Award 

Combining critical race studies with cultural production studies, Navigating White News: Asian American Journalists at Work is the only academic book to examine the ways that racial identification and activation matters in their understanding of news. This adds to the existing literature on race and the sociology of news by examining intra-racial differences in the ways they navigate and understand White newsrooms. Employing in-depth interviews with twenty Asian American journalists who are actively working in large and small newsrooms across the United States, Navigating White News: Asian American Journalists at Work argues that Asian American reporters for whom racial identities are important questioned what counted as news, questioned the implicitly White perspective of objectivity, and actively worked toward providing more complex, substantive coverage of Asian American communities. For Asian American reporters for whom racial identity was not meaningful, they were more invested in existing professional norms. Regardless, all journalists understood that news is a predominantly and culturally White institution.
 

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Preface
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Asian American Reporters’ Racial and Ethnic Identifications
• 3. White Normativity in the Newsroom
• 4. Navigating White Newsrooms
• 5. What Counts as News
• 6. Covering Asian America
• 7. COVID-19 and Coping with Gendered Racist Harms
• Epilogue
• Acknowledgments
• Notes
• References
• Index
• About the Authors