TY - JOUR AU - Powers, Angela PY - 2020/12/01 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Managing Civility in News and Information Organizations JF - Nordic Journal of Media Management JA - NJMM VL - 1 IS - 4 SE - Research Articles DO - 10.5278/njmm.2597-0445.6252 UR - https://journals.aau.dk/index.php/NJMM/article/view/6252 SP - 465-479 AB - <p><strong>Purpose: </strong>Explore media managers’ perspectives on covering issues of conflict, as well as analyze news coverage of issues related to civility in the Black Lives Matter conflict.</p><p><strong>Methodology: </strong>Summary translations were conducted on panel discussions of civility in media to identify issues of importance to media managers. A computational content analysis of newspaper articles on conflict was conducted to identify key words and phrases used in actual coverage. </p><p><strong>Findings/Contribution:</strong> Media managers are concerned with bias in news reporting an­­d covering differing viewpoints especially in stories of conflict. Four themes emerged: Values, Practices, Sectors, Story Topics and Legal Considerations. In Black Lives Matter coverage, reporting themes related to violence prevailed leaving open more in-depth coverage of issues related to values, sectors and legal concerns.</p> ER -