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Abstract

While reporting on the white supremacist ideology behind mass shootings, are journalists inadvertently magnifying the message? Joan Donovan, director of the Technology and Social Change Research project at Harvard University, joins Hari Sreenivasan to discuss how reporters should - and should not - cover mass shootings.

Citation

Donovan, Joan. "How Media Coverage Contributes to White Supremacist Rhetoric." PBS NewsHour, August 4, 2019.