As ad-industry executives gathered for the event, activist groups flew a banner that read Musk Is Bad For Business: #StopToxicTwitter., for your rights to connect and communicate, The Philadelphia Inquirer Is Working to Transform Its Newsroom. Now you can read The Philadelphia Inquirer Digital Edition anytime, anywhere. Gaps in news coverage, from less than adequate provision of vital information to the virtual absence of such information in news deserts, also raise normative concerns for the pluralistic representation and participation of different publics in democracy (Ferree et al., 2002). Shared circulation and web traffic reported for University City Review and Philly Free Press. Next, we outline our methodological approach to assessing multiple dimensions of Philadelphias media system: Audience socioeconomics; audience size; news staffing levels; media ownership structures; and news platforms (more recent digital-only entrants in the media system vs. older, legacy outlets that generally combine platforms such as print, broadcast, and digital). Final search string for COVID-19 coverage: (headline=(covid* OR coronavirus* OR pandemic* OR vaccin* OR virus* OR Wuhan OR Hubei OR CDC* OR quarantin*) OR lead=(covid* OR coronavirus* OR pandemic* OR vaccin* OR virus* OR Wuhan OR Hubei OR CDC* OR quarantin*)) NOT (headline=(Eagles OR Flyers OR Phillies OR Sixers OR 76ers OR NCAA OR MLB OR NHL OR MLS OR NFL OR soccer federation OR minor league OR major league OR happy valley OR PSU OR golf OR soccer OR football OR Penn Relays OR Owls OR auto racing OR NASCAR) OR lead=(Eagles OR Flyers OR Phillies OR Sixers OR 76ers OR NCAA OR MLB OR NHL OR MLS OR NFL OR soccer federation OR minor league OR major league OR happy valley OR PSU OR golf OR soccer OR football OR Penn Relays OR Owls OR auto racing OR NASCAR) OR obituaries OR sound off OR letters to the editor OR clarifications OR clearing the record OR Dear Abby), ((police said OR police spokesperson OR detectives said OR investigators said OR authorities said OR according to investigators OR according to police OR according to the police OR prosecutors said OR was charged with OR is charged with OR arrested and charged or was accused of OR is accused of or was arrested for or on charges of or cops id or police id) OR headline=(stabbing* OR stabbed OR aggravated assault OR assault* OR murder* OR manslaughter OR rape* OR robbery OR robbed OR killer OR attacker OR shooting* OR gunshot OR gun shot OR knife or burglar* OR vandal* OR detectives OR embezzle* OR theft OR stole* OR slain OR homicide* OR felon* OR misdemeanor*)) NOT ((Eagles OR Flyers OR Phillies OR Sixers OR 76ers OR NCAA OR MLB OR NHL OR MLS OR NFL OR soccer federation OR drown* OR thunderstorm OR tornado OR house fire OR sound off OR college basketball OR letters to the editor OR police brutality OR Black Lives Matter OR George Floyd OR Breonna Taylor OR Daunte Wright OR Rayshard Brooks OR Daniel Prude OR Walter Wallace OR clarifications OR legislat* OR editorial OR live life love OR politics OR sports OR Dear Abby OR capitol OR tear gas OR *plane crash OR President Trump OR Donald Trump) OR headline=(coronavirus OR covid OR virus OR vaccin*)), Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. Hughes, publisher-CEO of thePhiladelphia Inquirer. Jul 8, 2021. Indeed, a large corpus of research has noted the sensational aspects of crime coverage (Adams, 1978; Ehrlich, 1996; Knight, 1989; Wang, 2012), primarily intending to capture audience attention rather than to assess the impact on a given community. Shifting a newsroom toward antiracism has less to do with ensuring that individual journalists are not personally racist than it does with interrogating the influence of structural racism on newsroom systems and processes. So is racially tinged. Or pro-life. Or torture.. A final reliability test on 300 stories published by our outlets from the Factiva and NewsBank databases and including two coders (co-authors) resulted in strong intercoder agreement scores for COVID-19 stories (0.907 Holstis method; 0.812 Krippendorffs alpha) and for crime stories (0.947 Holstis; 0.837 Krippendorffs). She went to The Times in January 1977, arriving in Washington with the new Carter administration. With the exception of magazine-style outlets attracting affluent audiences (e.g., Philadelphia Business Journal, Philadelphia Magazine, and Philadelphia Weekly), commercial, privately held outlets tend to show low ratios of COVID-19 to crime coverage. WTXF/Fox29 is one of two outlets in our study that give more attention to crime than to the pandemic (3.2). Local TV news, where we would expect to find lower income and education indices (though we lack the data to produce these indices), does not appear to help close these gaps, as most COVID-to-crime news ratios at local TV affiliates are low, occasionally even negative. This is $31,000 (rounded) above Philadelphias median HHI of $47,474, creating an income index of 131, as we divide all income data points by 1,000 to assist readability. Can foundations solve the journalism crisis? The EIN for the organization is 59-1630423. In Philadelphia, Mr. Roberts, the Inquirer editor, appointed the papers top investigative team of Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele to dig into the affair. Philadelphia also has significant levels of socioeconomic and racial inequality (Shields & Siddique, 2020), raising the question of whether the citys news outlets equitably serve its most marginalized communities. Digital-only outlets included in Table2 are Billy Penn, Catholic Philly, Passyunk Post, Philly Voice, and West Philly Local. Public media organization WHYY has a television audience education index (102) close to the Philadelphia average, based on a media kit citing 20132014 figures (WHYY, n.d.). Treating citywide figures as an index of 100, we add or subtract outlet-level audience data to create income, education, and age indices. For crime stories, our search strings are designed to exclude references to police killings that have sparked Black Lives Matter protests, as these raise community-wide concerns for pervasive, systemic racial bias, and to exclude references to the January 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol, which occurred beyond the Philadelphia area. In answer to RQ2 concerning news provision by digital-only outlets, these more recent entrants to the Philadelphia media system appear to largely mirror the longstanding socioeconomic divides of traditional news media, as they reach audiences that, in the aggregate, have income, education, and age indices that exceed Philadelphia medians and averages. Subscribe to your choice of industry specific newsletters, save $100 on conferences, search member directories, comment on stories and more. In answering RQ4 concerning ownership impacts on critical information needs, we find that public-funded and nonprofit media produce more COVID-19 coverage relative to crime stories than their commercial counterparts. 10/week for 3 months. Under such ownership, news properties may be treated like any other asset in large financial portfolios: As targets for extracting maximum profits rather than as civic institutions. Although hyperlocal, niche outlets have the potential to address some of the ensuing gaps, these are often relatively under-resourced news organizations, raising questions about their long-term sustainability. February 2, 2021 The Philadelphia Inquirer announced Tuesday that its Schuylkill Printing Plant has been sold to developer J. Brian O'Neill for $37 million, according to reporting by the. Anyone can read what you share. Mr. Roberts soon asked the managing editor, Gene Foreman no relation to Laura to prepare a comprehensive ethics code, something few newspapers had in that era. include emergencies and public safety among their critical information needs, the authors note the negative impacts of reportage on crime, which can generate fear of crime and minorities in local communities, and they emphasize a communitys interest in fair and accurate representation (p. 11). With the collapse of the advertising business model, the Inquirer, like numerous other U.S. newspapers, is trying to do more with less. But she was among the first to have that romance, with a powerful politician, blow up into a public scandal. I dont believe I have done anything wrong, Ms. Foreman told The Inquirer in a statement. Its been more than a year since The Philadelphia Inquirer launched its Inquirer for All project with the ambitious aim of transforming a newsroom that published the infamous Buildings Matter, Too headline into an inclusive and antiracist newsroom. The Inquirer created an Anti-Racist Workflow Guide that offers a series of questions (e.g. And a number of them worked in the Twin Towers. (, Stryker J. E., Wray R. J., Hornik R. C., Yanovitzky I. have been shaped by assumptions about a presumed white audience. First, we developed decision trees to guide our discussion of the types of stories to include and exclude from our database searches. Responding to this, the Inquirer is creating resources, guides, and tracking systems to attempt to make their work more accountable to Black, Indigenous and people of color communities and journalists. Should it be politicians like those in Arizona and Pennsylvania whose forensic investigations are motivated not by any democratic impulse but by a purely partisan agenda? Calling for more public funding to reduce commercial pressures on struggling news organizations and expanding the budget for public media is a challenging reformist project. (2012) identify eight categories of such critical information needs: Emergencies and public safety; health; education; transportation; environment and planning; economic development; civic life; political life. Theres a simple but powerful idea behind the Philadelphia Inquirers recent decision not to use the word audit when referring to an effort by the state GOP to investigate the 2020 election: The words that a news organization chooses to tell a story make a difference. In advance of a visit by President Jimmy Carter to Yazoo City, Miss., she wrote that the city straddles a subtle cultural fault line between the older, harder folkways of the hardscrabble hills and the lustier civilization that flourished closer to the Mississippi. Her literary debt to Edith Wharton, one of her favorite authors, was evident in a light feature article she wrote from a soggy social event in Virginia: Rain pooled in the brim of Tom Ryders black derby, pouring in a miniature waterfall on to his nose, where it dispersed in steady driblets on to his stopwatch.. If you're already a paid subscriber, please sign-in. The Inquirer for Alls work also put it face-to-face with another 800-pound gorilla, namely journalism norms and traditions that have historically bolstered whiteness, including the dominant interpretation of objectivity as the view from nowhere. There was resistance from those who saw antiracism as activism that was antithetical to the rules of journalism. The Voice committee decided that if the Inquirer was to be an antiracist newsroom, it needed to outline what values guided their work as an antiracist newsroom, including acknowledging the role journalists play in their communities, and recognizing how journalists are informed by their own life experiences. The Inquirer stated some reporting-based facts linked to the papers previous stories about them: That Joe Biden won the state by more than 80,000 votes, that state and county audits affirmed that outcome, and that there is no evidence of any significant fraud. The Inquirer reported progress on meeting goals they set for hiring: Since the start of the year, 61% of all new newsroom positions were filled by individuals from BIPOC communities and 44% identified as women. RQ2: To what extent are socioeconomically and demographically differentiated audiences served by digital-only news outlets in Philadelphias media system? As Taijuan Walker struggles, Phillies lose big to Dodgers, 13-4, Met Gala: Rihanna, Jared Leto as Choupette, Kim K. in pearls, Canadian folk singer Gordon Lightfoot has died at 84. Other reporters and photographers were sent to the field in Shanksville, PA where United Flight 93 went down. The AP set off to learn their identities. As explained by Stryker et al. The conversations focused on crime and justice coverage with the hopes of informing the Inquirers newsroom guidelines and building relationships with impacted communities. Beloved husband of. a Community News Desk to address shortcomings in how the paper portrays Philadelphia communities, which have often been stigmatized by coverage that over-emphasizes crime, Hughes Inequities in news provision in Philadelphias media system have been noted by prior researchers. The politician, State Senator Henry J. Cianfrani, who was known as Buddy, went to jail on unrelated charges of corruption. To adjust for less than perfect precision and recall, we follow Stryker et al.s method of using recall and precision rates to produce a coefficient to apply to the number of COVID-19 (multiplied by coefficient of 1.07) and crime stories (multiplied by coefficient of 1.05) surfaced by our searches to produce an estimated total number of stories in each category of coverage for each outlet during our search period. Get the Poynter newsletter that's right for you. She could just tell a story with such seeming effortlessness and was a very fast writer, Rita Mullin, editorial director of Discovery Publishing, said in a phone interview. As our content analysis does not involve human coding, precision is the most important measurement for assessing our database search strings (Stryker et al. This study builds a multi-dimensional framework for assessing local media systems to identify potential gaps in news provision, especially among socioeconomically marginalized communities. many big-city dailies, theInquirerhas overemphasized crime and been racially insensitive in its coverage, Hughes said. Timothy Neff, PhD, Pawel Popiel, PhD, Victor Pickard, PhD, Philadelphias news media system: which audiences are underserved?, Journal of Communication, Volume 72, Issue 4, August 2022, Pages 476487, https://doi.org/10.1093/joc/jqac018.
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