New Report: Local Media Responds to George Floyd
How Philadelphia Newsrooms Covered a Week of Protests
In the days after George Floyd was murdered by Derek Chauvin on May 25, 2020, cities across the U.S. broke out in protests and local and national media raced to cover the events as they unfolded. In a new study, Reframe seeks to illustrate how the breaking news reporting of Philadelphia’s media ecosystem presented these protests and related events to the city’s residents in their immediate aftermath.
To do so, we analyzed articles related to the protests from 19 of the news partners of the Broke in Philly collaborative during the week of May 30 through June 7, 2020. The headlines, images, and article content in the corpus were examined through the lens of existing media scholarship on protest coverage. The results point towards how such events might be covered by local news outlets going forward, with an eye towards solutions, solidarity, and collaboration.
