UID:
almahu_9949384576102882
Format:
1 online resource (xiv, 294 pages) :
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1 illustration
ISBN:
9781351166317
,
135116631X
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9781351166300
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1351166301
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9781351166324
,
1351166328
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9781351166294
,
1351166298
Content:
Ethical Reporting of Sensitive Topics explores the underlying complexities that journalists may face when covering difficult news stories. Reporting on issues such as suicide, sexual abuse, or migration is a skill that is often glossed over in a journalist's education. By combining theory and practice, this collection will correct this oversight and give journalists the expertise and understanding to report on these subjects responsibly and ethically. Contributors to this volume are an international group of journalists-turned- academics, who share their first-hand experiences and unique professional insight into best ethical journalistic practice for reporting on sensitive topics. Drawing from a range of case studies, contributors discuss the most appropriate approach to, for example, describing a shooter who has killed a group of schoolchildren or interviewing someone who has lost everything in a natural disaster. Readers are invited to consider factors which have the potential to influence the reporting of these sorts of topics, including bias, sensationalism, conflict of interest, grief, vulnerability, and ignorance of one's own privilege. Ethical Reporting of Sensitive Topics aims to support all journalists, from students of journalism and individuals encountering a newsroom for the first time, to those veteran journalists or specialist journalists who seek to better their reporting skills.
Note:
Introduction / Ann Luce -- Ethics, responsibility and self-care. Journalism standards on the job / Chris Frost -- Learning to cope with the tough times / Lyn Barnes -- Reporting sensitive topics. Reporting child sexual abuse / Amanda Gearing -- Reporting suicide / Ann Luce -- Reporting violence. Reporting mass shootings / Glynn Greensmith -- Reporting urban violence and gangs / Mathew Charles -- Reporting health. Reporting critical health journalism / John Lister -- Reporting on drugs, diets, devices and other health interventions / Kim Walsh-Childers -- Reporting science and the environment. Reporting emerging and controversial science / Shelley Thompson & Hilary Stepien -- Reporting climate change / Bob Wyss -- Reporting disasters in the digital age / Amanda Gearing -- Reporting cultural, ethnic and geographical difference. Reporting on "other" cultures / Alex Wake -- Reporting on international migration / Jeremaiah Opiniano -- Conclusion: further hints and tips / Ann Luce.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Ethical reporting of sensitive topics. London ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019 ISBN 9780815348658
Language:
English
Subjects:
General works
Keywords:
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
DOI:
10.4324/9781351166324
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781351166324
