Introduction: The Problem of Poverty in the News Media Part 1 Principles: Ethical Frameworks for Covering Poverty
1. Communitarian Ethics and Poverty Coverage
2. The Capability Approach and Media Coverage of Poverty
3. Extreme Poverty as Human Rights Violation: Moral Duties and Public Engagement in the Global North
4. Precarious Photojournalism: The Ethics and Aesthetics of the Unrepresentable
5. Shared Vulnerability as a Virtuous Framework for Poverty Coverage
6. Solidarity in U.S. Journalism: Social Justice Implications of How Journalists Humanize People Experiencing Homelessness
7. Social Empathy + Compassion: Building Blocks for Poverty Coverage
8. Reporting on the Margins But Not Marginalizing with Dustin Dwyer Part II Poverty: Socioeconomic Need and Its Causes in the News
9. A Very Poor Watchdog: How the Political Economy Continues to Define News Reporting of Poverty in the Digital Era
10. Framing Poverty: An Historical Overview of Ways of Seeing Poverty
11. The Social Construction of Poverty in India: Role of News Media
12. A History of Media Coverage of Poverty in the United States Since 1960
13. Ruin Porn and Virtue Porn: Licensing How We Talk About Perceptions of Urban Decay
14. Neoliberal Poverty Discourses in Canadian Newspapers
15. Coverage of Poverty in Business News: How Media Represent Public and Private Concern for People Living in Poverty
16. Living in a Material World: Celebrity Media Culture and Neoliberal Ideology in the Digital Age
17. Urban Inequality and Marginalization with Chris Michael Part III “Poor”: News Representations of People Experiencing Poverty
18. What about the Actors Involved in News about Poverty? Disrupting Determinist Accounts
19. The Picture of Poverty: Visual Images and Their Implications
20. Settler Colonial Representations of Indigenous Disadvantage
21. Media Representations of Structural Factors Contributing to Women’s Poverty
22. The Cultural Image of the Fat Poor in German News Media
23. Representations of the Working Poor
24. Representation, Poverty, and “Hillbilly Culture” in Appalachia
25. To Cover or Not to Cover? A Critical Discourse Analysis of Mainstream Media News Framing of Children in Kenyan Care Homes
26. Not Sending Their Best: Media Framings of Immigrants as the “Parasitic Poor"
27. News at a Time of Economic Hardship with Judith Matloff Part IV Policy: Indirect Coverage of Poverty as Part of Watchdog Journalism
28. Keep Calm and Carry On: Challenging a Discourse of Necessity and Forbearance in News Reporting of UK “Austerity” Policies
29. Welfare in the Media: Issues of Coloniality and Symbolic Power in the Case of Metiria Turei
30. Contesting the Narrative of Rootless Others
31. Not Just for Christmas: News Media Coverage of Homelessness
32. Criminalization of Poverty: Fines, Fees, Money Bail, and Much More
33. From Community Empowerment to Infrastructure Reinforcement: Exploring the Shifting Media Narrative on Indigent Health Policy from Reagan to Obama
34. Housing Policy in the News: In Praise of Markets, Problematizing Residents in Poverty
35. What Lessons May Be Drawn from Media Reactions to a Universal Basic Income?
36. Water Access and Solutions Journalism with Jiquanda Johnson Part V Positives: Promising Practices for Better Poverty Coverage
37. Amplifying the Deliberative Agency of Indigenous Communities in Philippine News Media
38. Constructive Journalism and Poverty Reduction in China: The Targeted Poverty Alleviation Campaign
39. Citizen Media as a Counter-Narrative: Slum Journalism and the Kibera News Network
40. Refugees, Media Representation and Counter-Narrative: An Analysis of TedxKakumaCamp
41. “Filling the Void”? Engagement between the Nonprofit Sector and Journalists in the Production of News about Poverty
42. Longform Immersion: Situating Struggle as an In/Outsider
43. Expanding Journalism Students' Empathy by Writing about the Working Poor
44. Focused on Results, Building Trust with Monica Morales