This book explores the written and unwritten requirements Black journalists face in their efforts to get and keep jobs in television news. Informed by interviews with journalists themselves, Lewis examines how raced Black journalists and their journalism organizations process their circumstances and choose to respond to the corporate and institutional constraints they face. She uncovers the social construction and attempted control of "Blackness" in news production and its subversion by Black journalists negotiating issues of objectivity, authority, voice, and appearance along sites of multiple differences of race, gender, and sexuality.
| ISBN: | 9780815386421 |
| Publication date: | 22nd December 2017 |
| Author: | Libby Lewis |
| Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 202 pages |
| Series: | Routledge Transformations in Race and Media |
| Genres: |
Media studies Ethnic studies Social and cultural history News media and journalism Media studies: journalism Media studies: journalism Media studies Ethnic studies News media and journalism |