eBook

Navigating White News

Min, Seong Jae, Oh, David C

2023

Overview

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.

• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Subject: 21st century / American Studies / Asian American journalists / Asian American professional employees / Asian Americans / Asian Americans and mass media / Business / Communication Studies / Ethnic identity / Journalism / Labor & Employment Relations / Mass media and race relations / Race identity / Race relations / Reporters and reporting / Social aspects / Sociology / United States
• ISBN: 9781978831438, 1978831439, 9781978831421, 1978831420