- While African Americans comprise about a quarter of Pittsburgh's population, only 8.9 percent of front-page news during the study period reported on African-American men and boys.
- Eighty-six percent of television stories featuring African-American men and boys focused on crime. Pittsburgh's competitive television market may feed into the problem by encouraging crime coverage.
- Survey respondents cited the media's omission of positive developments in the African-American community, including mentoring programs, music and talent shows, and increasing graduation rates. The analysis found a dearth of African-American representation in pieces on lifestyle, business, and social causes.
- Though Pittsburgh's flourishing blogging community may be ideal for freely expressing opinions, African-American men have a very small presence in it.
- Compared to 59 percent of all Americans, 64 percent of African Americans access the Internet on handheld devices. Developing content for this medium could be effective.
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