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Black Americans see an important role for Black people in the newsgathering process as one possible way to improve coverage of race and Black communities. But they largely do not feel that their news broadly needs to come from Black journalists, nor do they see reporters’ race as a dominant factor in whether news is […]

While Black Americans express deep-seated concerns about how they are portrayed in the news, they see several ways in which that coverage could be improved. About half or more of U.S. Black adults say covering all sides of an issue, understanding the history of the issues in the story, personally engaging with people they cover, […]

Black Americans express a range of concerns about how Black people are covered in the news. Our survey asked U.S. Black adults to evaluate several aspects of the news that they see or hear about Black people. In each case, Black Americans are much more likely to offer a negative than positive assessment of news […]