U.S. News Coverage of Racial Minorities

BEVERLY ANN DEEPE KEEVER, Associate Professor of Journalism at the University of Hawaii, covered the Vietnam War for seven years. Her reporting for the Christian Science Monitor about the embattled outpost of Khe Sanh was nominated in 1969 for a Pulitzer Prize.CAROLYN MARTINDALE is Professor Emerita at Youngstown State University, where she served as director of the journalism program. A former newspaper reporter, she is the author of The White Press and Black America (Greenwood, 1986) and the editor of Pluralizing Journalism Education: A Multicultural Handbook (Greenwood, 1993).MARY ANN WESTON is Associate Professor at the Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University. A former newspaper reporter, she was a member of the Detroit Free Press staff that won a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the 1967 Detroit riots. She is the author of Native Americans In the News (Greenwood, 1996).

• Foreword by Oscar H. Gandy, Jr. Preface by Beverly Ann Deepe Keever, Mary Ann Weston, and Carolyn Martindale The Origins and Colors of a News Gap by Beverly Ann Deepe Keever The Native Americans by Mary Ann Weston and John Coward The African Americans by Carolyn Martindale and Lillian Rae Dunlap The Hispanic Americans by Michael B. Salwen and Gonzalo Soruco The Asian Americans: The Chinese Americans by Ann Elizabeth Auman and Gregory Yee Mark The Asian Americans: The Japanese Americans by Thomas H. Heuterman The Asian Americans: The Other Asian Americans by Virginia Mansfield-Richardson The Pacific Islanders by Beverly Ann Deepe Keever Investigative Reporting by Tim Gallimore and Lillian Rae Dunlap Racial Minorities and the FCC's "Public Interest" Mandate: Defining and Redefining Their Role, 1934-1996 by William J. Leonhirth Conclusion by Mary Ann Weston, Carolyn Martindale, and Beverly Ann Deepe Keever Index