West Virginia University Press
The News Untold: Community Journalism and the Failure to Confront Poverty in Appalachia
Key Metrics
- Michael Clay Carey
- West Virginia University Press
- Hardcover
- 9781943665969
- 8.3 X 5.1 X 0.8 inches
- 0.85 pounds
- Social Science > Media Studies
- English
Secure TransactionBook Description
Weatherford Award winner, nonfiction
The News Untold offers an important new perspective on media narratives about poverty in Appalachia. It focuses on how small-town reporters and editors in some of the region's poorest communities decide what aspects of poverty are news, how their audiences interpret those decisions, and how those two related processes help shape broader understandings of economic need and local social responsibility. Focusing on patterns of both media creation and consumption, The News Untold shows how a lack of constructive news coverage of economic need can make it harder for the poor to voice their concerns.
Critical and inclusive news coverage of poverty at the local level, Michael Clay Carey writes, can help communities start to look past old stereotypes and attitudes and encourage solutions that incorporate broader sets of community voices. Such an effort will require journalists and community leaders to reexamine some of the professional traditions and social views that often shape what news looks like in small towns.
Author Bio
Michael Clay Carey teaches courses in print and online journalism, including introductory and advanced writing classes, visual storytelling, and the practicum classes that produce The Local, an award-winning magazine written and designed by Samford journalism students. He is the faculty adviser for Samford’s student chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.
His academic research focuses on cultural studies of media, specifically the impacts of stereotypes and the roles media play in the formation and maintenance of individual and group identity. Carey is the author of The News Untold: Community Journalism and the Failure to Confront Poverty in Appalachia (2017, West Virginia University Press), for which he won the 2018 Tankard Book Award from AEJMC. Additionally, his research has been published in Journalism Practice, Newspaper Research Journal, Journalism History, Grassroots Editor and Journalism & Communication Monographs.
Prior to his academic career, Carey spent 10 years working as a reporter and editor at several newspapers in Tennessee, covering everything from prison escapes and state government to stockcar racing and agriculture. He wrote for The Tennessean in Nashville and covered the state as a news correspondent for USA Today.
Carey is a member of the Society for Professional Journalists, the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, and the International Society of Weekly Newspaper Editors.
Source: Samford University - Howard College of Arts & Sciences
Videos
No Videos
Community reviews
Write a ReviewNo Community reviews