Genocides in (and out of) the news: The role of national interests in American media coverage of mass violence

• In Event: Terrorism and Authoritarianism

Brief Overview

I investigate how American news coverage of different historical genocides was influenced by the U.S.’s relationship to the states that perpetrated mass violence, exploring both the relative volume of coverage and the usage of the term “genocide.”

Authors

• Zachary Jablow, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

• Tianhong Yin, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign