SJMC Emerging Scholar Speaker Series: Danielle Kilgo "Reckoning with Racism in Protest Coverage"
Channel: UW School of Journalism & Mass Communication
Date: 31/03/2021

Speaker: Danielle Kilgo, Ph.D., John & Elizabeth Bates Cowles Professor ofJournalism, Diversity, and Equality - Hubbard School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

Over the past 10 months, dozens of journalism organizations have promised to inwardly reflect on racial disparities in coverage and newsrooms — many calling it a “reckoning with racism.” Kilgo’s research suggests protest coverage should be a part of that reckoning, as her work routinely finds that antiracism movements like Black Lives Matter are given less legitimacy than most other protests. In this talk, Kilgo will illustrate how this routine marginalization allows us to understand news coverage of protest based on a hierarchy of social struggle, and highlights the challenges that modern ideologies of racism pose to progress.