Death Makes the News: How the Media Censor and Display the Dead

Winner of the 2018 Media Ecology Association's Erving Goffman Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Social Interaction

Winner of the Eastern Communication Association's Everett Lee Hunt Award
A behind-the-scenes account of how death is presented in the media

Death is considered one of the most newsworthy events, but words do not tell the whole story. Pictures are also at the epicenter of journalism, and when photographers and editors illustrate fatalities, it often raises ques...