Gwyneth Mellinger

Gwyneth Mellinger, a scholar of journalism history and author of *Racializing Objectivity*, explores how the white Southern press manipulated journalism standards to uphold Jim Crow. She discusses the reframing of civil rights coverage, seeing it as a debate over objectivity, and highlights the dismissal of the Black press as biased. Mellinger shares surprising archival findings revealing white editors' complicity in systemic racism and offers critical lessons for contemporary journalists to uncover underlying ideological biases.