Uncovering race
Subtitle: a black journalist's story of reporting and reinvention
By: Amy Alexander
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780807061008
Subjects: Race relations; Journalists; Press coverage; African American women journalists; Biography; Minorities
Description: "From the Rodney King riots to the racial inequities of the new digital media, Amy Alexander has chronicled the biggest race and class stories of the modern era in American journalism. Beginning in the bare-knuckled newsrooms of 1980s San Francisco, her career spans a period of industry-wide economic collapse and tremendous national demographic changes"--Dust jacket flap.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: San Francisco: a race and media paradox; title: Fresno: race and class coverage, the McClatchy way; title: Miami: The Herald tightrope; title: On the south Florida rainbow beat; title: Boston: brahmins, fabricators, and changing populations; title: Minnesota: is "well-meaning" good enough?; title: Washington, D.C.: class and color in the eye of the storm; title: Postracial news blues; title: Epilogue.