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The Times-Picayune in a Changing Media World

The Transformation of an American Newspaper

By: S. L. Alexander,Frank D. Durham,Alfred Lawrence Lorenz,Vicki Mayer

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The Times-Picayune in a Changing Media World

The Transformation of an American Newspaper

By: S. L. Alexander,Frank D. Durham,Alfred Lawrence Lorenz,Vicki Mayer

In 2012–2013, one of the largest U.S. newspaper chains, Advance Publications, determined its main product was no longer newspapers but news, and switched from daily print publication of The Times-Picayune of New Orleans to three days a week, while upgrading its presence online (“Digital First”). More than two hundred employees, including half the newsroom, were laid off in one of the poorest U.S. cities with among the lowest literacy rates and percentages of households with Internet access. The decision raised a furor in New Orleans. Beginning with an historical overview of The Times-Picayune, from its 1837 founding through the present, The Times-Picayune in a Changing Media World: The Transformation of an American Newspaper describes the crucial role the dailies played in the 1960 school desegregation crisis, as well as the impact of the switch on print coverage of hard news in the context of media developments, and provides a detailed analysis of specific print editions of The Times-Picayune and its digital formats conducted before and after the switch. This study of the evolution of The Times-Picayune is instructive for all concerned with what the transformation might portend for the news profession and for the traditional role of the press in the digital age.

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Lexington Books

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0739182455

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9780739182451

Forming the Public

A Critical History of Journalism in the United States

By: Frank D. Durham,Thomas P. Oates

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Forming the Public

A Critical History of Journalism in the United States

By: Frank D. Durham,Thomas P. Oates

Throughout United States history, journalists and media workers have mobilized to promote and oppose various movements in public life. But a single meaning of the public remains elusive. Frank D. Durham and Thomas P. Oates provide an eye-opening analysis of the role played by journalism in the ongoing struggle to shape and transform ideas about the public. Using historical episodes and news reports, Durham and Oates offer examples of the influential words and images deployed by not only journalists but by media workers and activists. Their analysis moves from the patriot-inflamed emotions of the revolutionary period to the conventional and creative ways the American Indian Movement confronted the mainstream with their grievances. Weaving eyewitness history through US history, Forming the Public reveals what understanding the journalism landscape can teach us about the nature of journalism’s own interests in race, gender, and class while tracing the factors that shaped the contours of dominant American culture.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252047818

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9780252047817

Suspect Citizens

What 20 Million Traffic Stops Tell Us About Policing and Race

By: Frank R. Baumgartner,Derek A. Epp,Kelsey Shoub

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What 20 Million Traffic Stops Tell Us About Policing and Race

By: Frank R. Baumgartner,Derek A. Epp,Kelsey Shoub

Suspect Citizens offers the most comprehensive look to date at the most common form of police-citizen interactions, the routine traffic stop. Throughout the war on crime, police agencies have used traffic stops to search drivers suspected of carrying contraband. From the beginning, police agencies made it clear that very large numbers of police stops would have to occur before an officer might interdict a significant drug shipment. Unstated in that calculation was that many Americans would be subjected to police investigations so that a small number of high-level offenders might be found. The key element in this strategy, which kept it hidden from widespread public scrutiny, was that middle-class white Americans were largely exempt from its consequences. Tracking these police practices down to the officer level, Suspect Citizens documents the extreme rarity of drug busts and reveals sustained and troubling disparities in how racial groups are treated.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108688829

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9781108688826

The Times-Picayune in a Changing Media World

The Transformation of an American Newspaper

By: S. L. Alexander,Frank D. Durham,Alfred Lawrence Lorenz,Vicki Mayer

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The Transformation of an American Newspaper

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