Quoted in the media
NiemanLab:
How mainstream media failed the Atlanta shooting victims
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Ruth DeFoster is the director of undergraduate studies at the University of Minnesota’s Hubbard School of Journalism and Mass Communication and a former journalist who researches American media coverage of large-scale tragedies. She’s been surveying journalists from top newsrooms, asking them whether their workplaces have policies for covering mass shootings. “To my surprise,” she said, “I am finding that the answer is no.”
Minnesota Reformer:
Data show racial bias in reporting from popular Twin Cities crime media network
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Ruth DeFoster, a University of Minnesota professor who specializes in media depictions of crime and terrorism, cautioned that police data should not be used as a proxy for the prevalence of crime by people of any given race, because evidence suggests people of color are over-policed, especially when it comes to traffic stops.
MPR News:
Use of ‘terrorism’ label depends on questions of rhetoric, law
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DeFoster said there's no consensus on what terrorism is. "You'd be hard pressed to find any two law enforcement officials, law enforcement entities, any two policymakers, any two journalists who are going to define terrorism the same way," she said. "That's the problem."