News for the Rich, White, and Blue

Columbia University Press eBooks· 2021-09-02· book· 212 citationsclosed

Media Studies and Communication Journalism and Media Studies Media Influence and Politics

Abstract

In News for the Rich, White, and Blue , Nikki Usher recasts the challenges facing journalism in terms of place, power, and inequality. Drawing on more than a decade of field research, she illuminates how journalists decide what becomes news and how news organizations strategize about the future.

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Nikki Usher (2021). News for the Rich, White, and Blue. Columbia University Press eBooks. https://doi.org/10.7312/ushe18466

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  title  = {News for the Rich, White, and Blue},
  author = {Usher, Nikki},
  year   = {2021},
  publisher = {Columbia University Press eBooks},
  doi    = {10.7312/ushe18466}
}

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