And rather than focusing on the grievance of protesters — that is, concerns about the deaths, injuries and looming famine affecting Palestinians — in reports of the campus encampments it has been the ...

Another peaceful route to sympathetic news coverage is to hold big protests, such as the 2006 and 2007 immigrant rights marches in scores of U.S. cities or the women’s marches held worldwide on ...

Media coverage of university students speaking up against the war in Gaza, just like coverage of other protest movements, has fallen prey to some serious weaknesses. Skip to main content.

Time and time again, colleagues and I have found that the bulk of news coverage of protests against police brutality tends to focus on protesters’ violence, disruption or sensational actions ...

We’ve seen some spot-on critiques of the media’s coverage of protests over the past month or so, pointing out that journalists are often framing protests through the lens of those in authority and ...

Media coverage of campus protests tends to focus on the spectacle, rather than the substance Danielle K. Brown receives funding from Lumina Foundation and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.

Demonstrators are protesting media coverage of the Israel-Hamas war at this year’s White House Correspondents’ Association dinner attended by President Biden, top government officials and ...

With the benefit of time, what was once a news media frenzy focusing on the violence after Floyd’s killing has yielded space for reflection and coverage that legitimizes those who took to the ...

Since the early 2010s, social media has been identified with protesters. In the early days of platforms like Twitter, this was intuitive. Protest movements want attention, but mainstream media ...

If you’ve turned on your TV over the past five days, you’ve seen protests from dozens of cities across the country. It can be hard to watch, but it’s critically important, too.

Protest movements can look very different depending on where you stand, both literally and figuratively. For protesters, demonstrations are usually the result of meticulous planning by advocacy ...

Protest movements can look very different depending on where you stand, both literally and figuratively. Media coverage of campus protests tends to focus on the spectacle, rather than the ...