WheresTiffany
Redefining Racial Broadcast Norms With Tiffany Cross’ MSNBC Removal
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 17716366 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rachel Grant (0000-0002-3418-2434, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA, corresponding author), Lisa D Lenoir (0000-0001-6297-7798, Indiana University Bloomington) |
| Year | 2026 |
| Publication date | 2026-04-29 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1077-6990 • E-ISSN: 2161-430X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/10776990261439161 |
| OpenAlex | W7159783093 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 37 |
Black female MSNBC anchor Tiffany Cross’ show, The Cross Connection , was canceled abruptly on November 4, 2022. As a result, #WheresTiffany started trending on Twitter, now called X, on November 5, 2022. The purpose of the study is to examine the racial reckoning of Black female anchors during “post-racial” U.S. politics. Using critical discourse analysis, we analyzed the Twitter discourse of the #WheresTiffany hashtag and found the following discourses: The Cronkite Effect , Racialized Objectivity , and Misogynoir . The reaction to Cross’ cancellation brings to the forefront the continued problems Black female journalists face in electronic news spaces
Black women · Broadcast journalism · Critical discourse analysis · Discourse analysis · Racism · Critical Race Theory in Education · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Rhetoric and Communication Studies
Distributed Blackness
HashtagActivism
Digital Black Feminism
Black maternal mortality in the media
Special Issue Introductory Essay
“Remedy for the Negro Invasion”
Selling Breonna
Integrated Newsrooms
Black Broadcast Journalists
Network News and Racial Beliefs
Beyond Respectability
The Historical Evolution of Black Feminist Theory and Praxis
Black women pundits and the possibilities of critical discord
Focusing on the fellas
Color, Caste and the Public Sphere
Through Our Prism”
Civil rights and the press
Misogynoir and the public woman
African American Women in the Newsroom
The American Journalist in the Digital Age
Chasing Newsroom Diversity
The Post-Racial Mystique
Rethinking Journalistic Authority
The Origins of Television's “Anchor Man
The news about comedy
From #Rona to #Omarion
On misogynoir
The Structure of Racism in Color-Blind, "Post-Racial" America
Objective News and Other Myths
Pedagogies of Respectability
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |