Navigating White News
184 pages, 6 x 9
1 table
Paperback
Release Date:17 Mar 2023
ISBN:9781978831421
Hardcover
Release Date:17 Mar 2023
ISBN:9781978831438
Navigating White News
Asian American Journalists at Work
By David C Oh and Seong Jae Min
Rutgers University Press
Combining critical race studies with cultural production studies, Navigating White News: Asian American Journalists at Work is the only academic book to examine the ways that racial identification and activation matters in their understanding of news. This adds to the existing literature on race and the sociology of news by examining intra-racial differences in the ways they navigate and understand White newsrooms. Employing in-depth interviews with twenty Asian American journalists who are actively working in large and small newsrooms across the United States, Navigating White News: Asian American Journalists at Work argues that Asian American reporters for whom racial identities are important questioned what counted as news, questioned the implicitly White perspective of objectivity, and actively worked toward providing more complex, substantive coverage of Asian American communities. For Asian American reporters for whom racial identity was not meaningful, they were more invested in existing professional norms. Regardless, all journalists understood that news is a predominantly and culturally White institution.
In a time of racial reckoning and COVID-19 inequalities, Oh and Min offer a timely and groundbreaking book on Asian American journalists’ experiences within white newsrooms. The rich interview data provide fresh and deep insights into the complex struggles and unique positionality of being both Asian American and a journalist in the U.S. today. This book is a must-read for those in journalism, media, cultural studies, and ethnic studies.
David Oh and Seong Jae Min produced a critical book that illuminates the reality of Asian American journalists working in white American newsrooms. Navigating White News successfully argues why race and identity matter when journalists cover BIPOC communities and marginalized groups. This book can help newsrooms and universities reexamine their relationships with BIPOC journalists, especially Asian American reporters who have been ignored, looked over, and misunderstood for far too long.
DAVID C. OH is an associate professor of communication arts at Ramapo College of New Jersey. He studies Asian Americans and media, transnational reception of Korean media, and Korean media and alterity. He is the author of two books, including Whitewashing the Movies, and Second-Generation Korean American Adolescents and Transnational Media.
SEONG JAE MIN is an associate professor of communication studies at Pace University’s NYC campus, where he studies journalism and political communication. He is the author of two books, As Democracy Goes, So Does Journalism, and Rethinking the New Technology of Journalism. He was a reporter in many news organizations.
SEONG JAE MIN is an associate professor of communication studies at Pace University’s NYC campus, where he studies journalism and political communication. He is the author of two books, As Democracy Goes, So Does Journalism, and Rethinking the New Technology of Journalism. He was a reporter in many news organizations.
Preface
Introduction
Asian American Reporters’ Racial and Ethnic Identifications
White Normativity in the Newsroom
Navigating White Newsrooms
What Counts as News
Covering Asian America
COVID-19 and Coping with Gendered Racist Harms
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes
References
Index
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Introduction
Asian American Reporters’ Racial and Ethnic Identifications
White Normativity in the Newsroom
Navigating White Newsrooms
What Counts as News
Covering Asian America
COVID-19 and Coping with Gendered Racist Harms
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes
References
Index
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