Covering protests in your town  - American Press Institute

Covering protests in your town  - American Press Institute

The challenges of protest coverage   With anti-ICE and anti-Trump protests arising in cities beyond Los Angeles — CNN has a rundown — newsrooms across the country will be deciding how to cover them: how many stories to publish, which images to present and how stories will be framed. One challenge is the temptation of the “conflict” angle. “The most substantial problem with protest coverage in general is that the press prefers to emphasize confli…