The News Untold: Community Journalism and the Failure to Confront Poverty in Appalachia (Hardcover)

The News Untold offers an important new perspective on media narratives about poverty in Appalachia. It focuses on how small-town reporters and editors in some of the region's poorest communities decide what aspects of poverty are news, how their audiences interpret those decisions, and how those two related processes help shape broader understandings of economic need and local social responsibility. Focusing on patterns of both media creation and consumption, The News Untold shows how a lack of constructive news coverage of economic need can make it harder for the poor to voice their concerns. Critical and inclusive news coverage of poverty at the local level, Michael Clay Carey writes, can help communities start to look past old stereotypes and attitudes and encourage solutions that incorporate broader sets of community voices. Such an effort will require journalists and community leaders to reexamine some of the professional traditions and social views that often shape what news looks like in small towns.

General

Imprint:	West Virginia University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	November 2017
Authors:	Michael Clay Carey
Dimensions:	203 x 127mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	252
ISBN-13:	978-1-943665-96-9
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Media studies Books > Humanities > History > History of other lands Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > General Books > History > History of other lands Promotions
LSN:	1-943665-96-6
Barcode:	9781943665969

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