RESEARCH PROJECTS

HOW FAR WE'VE COME: DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION IN AMERICAN NEWSROOMS AFTER THE KILLING OF GEORGE FLOYD

Tania Ganguli, Dr. Danielle K. Brown and Dr. Benjamin Toff

In the months after George Floyd was killed by a Minneapolis police officer, American newsrooms began grappling with their own racist pasts and ways to fix them. Often, part of their solution meant hiring or empowering a person in management to specifically address diversity, equity and inclusion. We examine these roles through a series of qualitative, in-depth interviews with the very people holding them.

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Presenting at Cardiff University's 2021 Future of Journalism 

CONSTRUCTING COMMON KNOWLEDGE IN IMMIGRATION COVERAGE

Tania Ganguli

Many scholars acknowledge that reality is socially constructed by a variety of factors including media coverage. Background information within journalistic pieces -- that information that isn't attributed to a source, and assumed as fact by the reporter and outlet -- is often assumed as common knowledge. I analyze coverage of deportation at newspapers on the U.S./Mexico border to understand what realities the background information in those stories constructed about Latinx migrants.

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Presenting at AEJMC's 2021 conference, Minorities and Communication Division

BLACK LIVES MATTER ON THE GROUND, COURT AND FIELD: MEDIA AND ATTITUDINAL FACTORS OF RECALL OF AND SUPPORT FOR BLACK CIVIL RIGHTS ADVOCACY

Dr. Danielle K. Brown, Dr. Rachel Mourão and Tania Ganguli

This work utilizes a nationally representative survey to explore how news media consumption of mainstream, partisan and sports news organizations and the attitudes held by audiences affect recall, negative attitudes towards protest utility, and support for Black Lives Matter. We include considerations for celebrity advocacy efforts in the NBA and NFL. We found ideological and political barriers to support for BLM, indicating conservatism has a stronger impact on protest attitudes, regardless of the tactics employed.

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Presenting at AEJMC 2021 Conference, Mass Communication and Society Division