TY - SER AU - Sommers, Zach. TI - Missing white woman syndrome: an empirical analysis of race and gender disparities in online news coverage of missing persons SN - 0081-4169 U1 - BPer 364.05 PY - 2016/// CY - --Northwestern University PB - Northwestern University Press N2 - At any given time, there are tens of thousands of Americans categorized as "missing" by law enforcement. However, only a fraction of those individuals receive news coverage, leading some commentators to hypothesize that missing persons with certain characteristics are more likely to garner media attention than others: namely, white women and girls ER -