ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book demonstrates how news coverage and public discourse touched off by the death of Freddie Gray in Baltimore in April 2015 offers insights into how journalism covers difficult, sensitive issues at the core of US society-race, structural inequality, the historical legacy of institutional racism, police violence, citizen uprising, and urban renewal. They organize the analysis around the book's three central themes: the relationship between news and urban space; voice and visibility in the public sphere, and journalistic discourse and criticism. The book makes several contributions to journalism studies. By focusing on news about a particular set of events in Baltimore 2015, it offers a multidimensional analysis of the strengths and the limitations of legacy news coverage of structural racism, police violence, and urban social problems.
