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Research Suggests Nationwide Racial Disparities in Media Reporting on Gun Violence

  • by Alex Russell
  • January 16, 2026
  • Self & Society
Mass shootings in white-majority neighborhoods received roughly twice the news coverage of mass shootings in neighborhoods where a majority of residents were people of color, while coverage of police-involved shootings was disproportionately high in majority-minority communities, according to new research in linguistics.
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