News of Baltimore

Linda Steiner is Professor in the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland, USA Silvio Waisbord is Professor in the School of Media and Public Affairs at The George Washington University, USA

Foreword

Jane Rhodes



1. News of Baltimore: Journalism and public expression about a city’s problems

Linda Steiner and Silvio Waisbord



Part I. News and the Politics of Place



2. Renewing the Lease: How News Characterizations of Baltimore Realigned White Reign of US Cities

Robert Gutsche and Carolina Estrada



3. Local news framing of Baltimore as a segregated market

Andrew Rojecki



4. The sociological eye in the news: Covering West Baltimore in the aftermath of the death of Freddie Gray

Silvio Waisbord, Eissa Saeed, and Tina Tucker



5. Order in Baltimore? On Place-Frames in US Journalism

Barbie Zelizer



Part II. Voices, Visibility and the Public Sphere



6. It’s not a pretty picture’: Visualizing the Baltimore crisis on social media

Stuart Allan and Lina Dencik



7. Black agency in the production of counter-narratives of police brutality.

Ashley Howard



8. The Black Press and Baltimore: The continuing importance of African American journalism during urban uprisings

Sarah Jackson



9. Who Killed Freddie Gray?: The Video that Started It All

Khadijah Costley White



Part III. Journalistic Discourse and Criticism



10. Historical discontinuities in news coverage of the Baltimore 2015 riots and the 1965 Watts riots

Bonnie Brennen



11. Journalists as victims and perpetrators of violence

Matt Carlson



12. Who speaks for the "real" Baltimore?: How journalists understood their authority and ability to represent "place" during the 2015 unrest

Katy June-Friesen



13. "I don’t want him to be a Freddie Gray": The Hero Mom on Trial



Linda Steiner and Carolyn Bro