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Racial bias affects media coverage of missing people. A new tool illustrates how

A missing persons flyer, bearing the name of Annie Le, shown here in New Haven, Conn., in September 2009. This year, the Columbia Journalism Review (CJR) launched a new tool that allows users to openly share their "press value" with the world if they were to go missing. Thomas Cain/Associated Press hide caption

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Racial bias affects media coverage of missing people. A new tool illustrates how

The database tool estimates that younger, white women will get increasingly more news coverage than other racial groups — such as Black, Latino and Indigenous people.

Racial bias affects media coverage of missing people. A new tool illustrates how

A missing persons flyer, bearing the name of Annie Le, shown here in New Haven, Conn., in September 2009. This year, the Columbia Journalism Review (CJR) launched a new tool that allows users to openly share their "press value" with the world if they were to go missing. Thomas Cain/Associated Press hide caption

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Thomas Cain/Associated Press

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Racial bias affects media coverage of missing people. A new tool illustrates how

by Jonathan Franklin

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Racial bias affects media coverage of missing people. A new tool illustrates how

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