"Now in its second edition, Covering Violence remains a crucial guide for becoming a sensitive and responsible reporter. Discussing such topics as rape and the ethics of interviewing children, the book gives students and journalists a detailed understanding of what is happening "on the scene" of a v
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iolent event, including where a reporter can go safely and legally, how to obtain the most useful information, and how best to interview and photograph victims and witnesses. This second edition takes our turbulent postmillennium history into account and emphasizes the consequences of frequent exposure to traumatic events. It offers new chapters on 9/11 and terrorism, the Columbine school shootings, and the photographing of violent events, as well as additional profiles of Vietnamese American, Native American, and African American journalists." (Publisher description)
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"Unsere heutige Gesellschaft ist wesentlich eine Mediengesellschaft. Umso wichtiger ist ein breiter Verständigungsprozess über medienethische Fragen. Diese Studie zeigt auf, inwiefern einzelne Christen als auch die Kirchen insgesamt ihre eigene Verantwortung im Umgang mit Medien haben. Im Rahmen e
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iner umfassenden Bestandsaufnahme wird der Blick besonders auf diejenigen gerichtet, die von den Medien selbst, aber auch in der Medienforschung nur wenig beachtet werden: Kinder und Jugendliche aus bildungsfernen Familien, Migranten und Behinderte. In Auseinandersetzung mit medienethischen Konzepten und dem kirchlich-theologischen Diskurs werden dann zentrale Prinzipien einer praktisch-theologischen Medienethik skizziert." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"When children are victims of violence, journalists have a responsibility to report the truth with compassion and sensitivity. Kids aren’t mini-adults; they deserve special consideration when they end up in the news. Yet few journalists have experience interviewing children for routine stories, le
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t alone when tragedy hits. What ground rules apply? Is it OK to interview children huddled outside a school after a classmate has gunned down a teacher? At the hospital after a car accident? Should you name child abuse victims in news coverage? Juveniles who commit crimes? How do you balance children’s right to privacy with telling compelling stories? Exposure to violence affects children and adults differently. But kids are just as vulnerable to post-traumatic stress and other emotional consequences of violence and tragedy. Journalists can write stories that help educate parents about how to recognize emotional trauma in their children. They can foster community healing by interviewing families putting their lives back together after a disaster. Editors can weigh the impact of graphic visual images on young readers when deciding what to publish or broadcast." (Page 2)
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"This is an evaluation of the project “Promoting Professionalism, Independence and Accountability in Sri Lanka” under the Sri Lanka Press Institute, SLPI. SLPI has two major departments: the Press Complaints Commission of Sri Lanka, PCCSL, and the Sri Lanka College of Journalism, SLCJ. PCCSL is
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a self-regulatory body for press ethics, while SLCJ is running a one-year diploma course in journalism and a number of short term mid-career courses for working journalists. The major funding of the SLPI has come from Sida and Norad for the period 2003–2006. This has been supplemented by funding from DANIDA towards the end of this period. The Institute for Further Education of Journalists, Fojo, has been the Swedish partner to SLPI to support institutional capacity building [...] During a short duration of less than three years SLPI has achieved a lot. The institute is up and running. Most of the practical aspects of setting up an institute have been achieved. In addition, a whole new section for the training of TV and radio journalists which was not on the original plan has been established. Most journalists we met agreed about the concept of self-regulation and commended the SLPI for pioneering the concept. The courses conducted by the College and Fojo have acceptance within the media industry. Despite these achievements, SLPI has been going through a certain degree of turmoil in recent times, mainly linked to management issues. Hence the organisation has entered a period where it needs to sort out these issues and consolidate itself." (Executive summary)
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"[...] this article evaluates various mechanisms of media accountability in Africa, and concludes that they are fraught with tensions among various political interests. It argues that state-controlled mechanisms of accountability are not always conducive to democracy, because they could be subject t
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o abuse. There is, therefore, the need for the media themselves to put in place procedures and demonstrate attitudes and levels of performance that ensure the highest standards of professionalism and levels of probity and accountability." (Abstract)
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"Da das Christentum im Wesentlichen auf Vermittlung, Verständigung und Kommunikation basiert, gehört das Bemühen um das Gelingen zwischenmenschlicher Kommunikation auch über die Medien theologisch betrachtet zur Aufgabe des Menschen. Wird das Miteinander von Menschen, das durch Kommunikation erm
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öglicht wird und damit auch das menschliche Personsein durch die Medien und Medienentwicklung in irgendeiner Weise beeinträchtigt oder behindert, ergeben sich damit nicht nur medienethische, sondern auch grundlegende Fragen von theologischer Bedeutung. Die Untersuchung unternimmt deshalb den Versuch, sich mit Medienethik aus theologischer Perspektive auseinanderzusetzen. Die Arbeit, die einer linearen Gliederung in Vergangenheit, Gegenwart und einem Ausblick in zukünftige Entwicklungen folgt, versucht einerseits in einer historischen Analyse die Entwicklungslinien einer Medienethik und das Verhältnis von Protestantismus und Medien nachzuzeichnen und zu interpretieren, und andererseits nach der theologischen Auseinandersetzung mit dem Phänomen medialer Kommunikation in der Gesellschaft zu fragen." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"This book is divided into three main parts. In the first part, I speak about one important human right long neglected in Slovenia: the right to obtain information [...] The second part is dedicated to the right to privacy and the mechanisms of its protection when it is invaded, unjustifiably or dis
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proportionately, by the media [...] In the third part, I look into the mechanisms of self-regulation and self-control in the media. This chapter is also an attempt to resuscitate the initiative to establish a press council in Slovenia." (Foreword, page 8-9)
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"This report looks at how countries in Western Europe, in particular Sweden, Germany and the UK have developed press councils or complaints commissions and analyses recent initiatives in five countries of South East Europe aimed at improving journalistic standards and establishing some form of media
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self-regulation. Developments in Albania, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Romania and Slovenia are explored through the testimonies of key stakeholders in the process: media owners, editors, journalists and non-governmental organisations. As the key findings and recommendations of the research reveal, there is no single fit-all model of media self-regulation that can be easily transferred from one country to another, but there are fundamental principles, which should be observed and useful lessons that can be learned." (Executive summary, page 6)
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