"This guide is both ambitious and modest. Ambitious because it wants to help journalists working in war situations. Modest because we have no miracle solution to offer. But the suggestions you will find in this guide, based on an all too often ignored common sense, should help many reporters to stee
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r clear of a lot of problems. We have recalled first key documents that spell out the principles of press freedom, along with charters and declarations concerning the journalistic profession. They come from all over the world, ranging from the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights to the Munich Charter about rights and duties of journalists to a charter the staff of the Japanese newspaper Nihon Shinbun Kyokaï use as guidance. As well as general documents, we thought it very important to include practical advice, such as the BBC gives to all its journalists when they go on a dangerous assignment. We have listed all the precautions to be taken to give better protection in such situations, such as where there are snipers, where people are taken hostage and when journalists are ambushed or have to pass a checkpoint. And when these measures fail, how to start saving a wounded or injured person. Also in the guide are how to go about investigating press freedom violations, as well as a list of the operating rules of the International Committee of the Red Cross and NGOs involved in freedom of expression. These recommendations are practical ones based on long experience in the field. With each new edition, we add suggestions from journalists who work daily in conditions of constantly changing information techniques and technology." (Preface)
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"Le journalisme consiste à recueillir et à traiter des informations à destination d'un public. Pour jouer son rôle de médiateur entre la réalité sociale et ce public, le journaliste doit maîtriser un certain nombre de techniques, acquérir un savoir-faire. Ce manuel, aujourd'hui sans équiva
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lent, expose et explique l'ensemble des règles du journalisme de presse écrite : recherche de l'information, écriture, genres journalistiques, illustration et mise en pages, journaux électroniques, déontologie... Charpenté, didactique et de lecture facile, ce livre s'appuie sur de nombreux exemples et illustrations, pour exposer avec rigueur un journalisme de méthode, condition de la réussite. L'ouvrage s'adresse en priorité aux journalistes et futurs journalistes, aux autres professionnels de la presse et de la communication, aux étudiants et enseignants qui s'intéressent aux journaux, à l'écriture et à la pratique journalistique." (Description de la maison d'édition)
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"The Handbook for Afghan Journalists is designed to help Afghan journalists in three ways. First, it serves as an explanation in their own language to many of the ideas and concepts behind international journalism. Second, it provides practical guidance on many of the basic techniques of journalism.
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To this end there are 12 exercises in the book. Some of them have answers provided at the end, and others either have no correct answers or are designed to be worked on in the classroom with a teacher. Third, the glossary at the back is intended to serve as a reference to explain and introduce many concepts which may be new to Afghan journalists. A wider range of reporting on economic and humanitarian issues is essential to strong public debate - and good government and international community strategies - if Afghanistan's bid for peace and development is to succeed. Journalists need familiarity with basic concepts in these fields to report on them properly." (Introduction, page 2)
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"Die Regeln des Nachrichten-Journalismus werden in diesem Buch systematisch vermittelt und durch ca. 300 Praxisbeispiele illustriert. Das Buch ist das Nachfolgewerk von "Nachrichtenschreiben" (1988 ff.). Die jetzige Version widmet sich auch den "hybriden" Darstellungsformen, die sich unter dem Einfl
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uss der Medienkonkurrenz und den Bedingungen des Internet entwickeln." (commbox)
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"This Gender Sensitive training package is divided into two component parts: The Manual and Reading Materials The two are parts of the whole and are mutually supportive. Although the manual can stand alone, the trainer needs the 'reading materials' to enable her/him to implement a knowledge-based in
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-depth course. The reading materials are organised in such a way as to fit into the intended 8-day training programme. The package is for trainers who are intent on furthering the interest of more gender sensitive reporting in the southern African media." (Introduction, page 2)
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"This Handbook is primarily for journalists, students, educators and activists, as well as the media managers. Its intention is not to offer a comprehensive review of professional and ethical standards on reporting diversities, but to prepare a general framework of rules that are accepted in profess
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ional journalism’s practice. Hence, the recommendations are actually a part of professional standards in journalism and ethical codes that apply worldwide. The presence of diversities in the editor’s offices and in journalistic contents attracts new audiences to the medium. It encourages the process of finding creative, original and alternative ways of reporting on diversities in a society such as Macedonia. The Handbook consists of several parts that offer recommendations for reporting on: ethnic and religious differences, gender issues, sexual minorities, persons with special needs, elderly, refugees and displaced persons, and different races. It provides basic recommendations for the media to promote diversity in society, but also for the establishment and maintenance of the concept of diversity in the editor’s offices." (Introduction)
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