News of Baltimore

Linda Steiner is Professor in the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland, USA Silvio Waisbord is Professor in the School of Media and Public Affairs at The George Washington University, USA

• ForewordJane Rhodes1. News of Baltimore: Journalism and public expression about a city’s problems Linda Steiner and Silvio WaisbordPart I. News and the Politics of Place2. Renewing the Lease: How News Characterizations of Baltimore Realigned White Reign of US CitiesRobert Gutsche and Carolina Estrada3. Local news framing of Baltimore as a segregated market Andrew Rojecki4. The sociological eye in the news: Covering West Baltimore in the aftermath of the death of Freddie GraySilvio Waisbord, Eissa Saeed, and Tina Tucker5. Order in Baltimore? On Place-Frames in US Journalism Barbie ZelizerPart II. Voices, Visibility and the Public Sphere6. It’s not a pretty picture’: Visualizing the Baltimore crisis on social mediaStuart Allan and Lina Dencik7. Black agency in the production of counter-narratives of police brutality. Ashley Howard 8. The Black Press and Baltimore: The continuing importance of African American journalism during urban uprisings Sarah Jackson9. Who Killed Freddie Gray?: The Video that Started It All Khadijah Costley WhitePart III. Journalistic Discourse and Criticism 10. Historical discontinuities in news coverage of the Baltimore 2015 riots and the 1965 Watts riotsBonnie Brennen11. Journalists as victims and perpetrators of violenceMatt Carlson12. Who speaks for the "real" Baltimore?: How journalists understood their authority and ability to represent "place" during the 2015 unrest Katy June-Friesen13. "I don’t want him to be a Freddie Gray": The Hero Mom on Trial Linda Steiner and Carolyn Bro