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Transitional Justice: A Handbook for Journalists, Citizens and Activists

London; The Hague; Washington, DC: Institute for War & Peace Reporting (IWPR) (2013), 32 pp.

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Use with Care: A Reporter's Glossary of Loaded Language in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Vienna: International Press Institute (IPI) (2013), 59 pp.

"This is a guide of sorts, presenting a collection of terms used on both sides, which in some contexts may be regarded as loaded or biased, or whose meaning is often misunderstood, or which can be misleading. These are words the use of which is liable to give away the reporter’s communal identity ... more

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Overview of Corruption in the Media in Developing Countries

Mara Mendes

U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre;Transparency International;Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI) (2013), 11 pp.

"In developing countries, the media is often confronted by a combination of factors that create fertile grounds for corruption, such as lack of training and technical skills, low professional standards, limited financial resources, opaque or government controlled ownership structures, inadequate and ... more

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Investigative Journalism in Grassroots Independent Print Media in South Africa: A Baseline Study of the Eastern Cape, Mpumalanga and Limpopo

Eastern Cape Communication Forum (ECCF);Association of Independent Publishers (AIP);Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) (2013), 20 pp.

"In summary, the findings show that more than half of the analysed newspapers do in fact seek to expose potential wrong doings of government and business and as such are important actors in promoting local accountability. Yet, the findings also show that a lot of the reporting is not as extensive, a ... more

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Audience Participation in the Production of Online News: Towards a Typology

Aske Kammer

Nordicom Review, volume 34, issue Special Issue (2013), pp. 113-126

"The potential of audience participation constitutes a most important characteristic of digital journalism. This article presents an inductive study of audience participation in the production of online news in a Danish context, analysing how audiences participate, and what relationships between jou ... more

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Social Media: A Handbook for Journalists

Stockholm: Sverige Radio (2013), 133 pp.

"We have chosen to divide this manual into three main parts: dialogue, research and sharing. These three parts are interlinked, however. For example, it is difficult to spread one’s material without a dialogue, since dialogue is the basis of all activities in social media. Still, the division corr ... more

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Media Guidelines for Reporting on Gender-Based Violence in Humanitarian Contexts

Global Protection Cluster (2013), 8 pp.

"The guidelines are intended to ensure that all actors who play a role in facilitating or engaging in media reporting on gender-based violence (GBV) are aware of and able to prioritize the ethical and safety considerations that preserve the safety, confidentiality and dignity of survivors, their fam ... more

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Digital News Report 2013: Tracking the Future of News

Nic Newman, David A. L. Levy (eds.)

Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2013), 108 pp.

This is the second of the annual Reuters Institute Digital News surveys published by Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (RISJ) at Oxford University. You Gov online polls commissioned by RISJ were conducted with 11,000 online users in the UK, US, Denmark, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Bra ... more

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State of the Newsroom: South Africa 2013. Disruptions and Transitions

Glenda Daniels

Johannesburg: University of the Witwatersrand, Wits Journalism (2013), vii, 100 pp.

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Ethical Dilemma Revisited: PBO Newspapers and the Professional Elbowroom of the Nigerian Journalist

Ayobami Ojebode

Journal of African Media Studies, volume 5, issue 3 (2013), pp. 295-312

"Focusing on politician-businessperson-owned (PBO) newspapers, the study examined how loyalty to the owners’ multiple interests has reduced the professional elbowroom of the Nigerian journalist. Through in-depth interviews and textual analysis, the study found that journalists in PBO newspapers ar ... more

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The Celebritization of Human Trafficking

Dina Francesca Haynes

Boston: New Englanf Law (2013), 38 pp.

"Celebrities now regularly engage with human trafficking policy and practice. A “sexy” topic, human trafficking is not only susceptible to alluring, fetishistic, and voyeuristic narratives, but plays into the celebrity-as-rescuer-of-the-victim ideal that receives a huge amount of attention from ... more

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Killing Me Softly with His Words: Censorship and Self-Censorship from the Perspective of Turkish Journalists

Esra Arsan

Turkish Studies, volume 14, issue 3 (2013), pp. 447-462

"Turkey is a country where democratization process has been repeatedly interrupted by military interventions in the past 50 years. Censorship and self-censorship have become ordinary practices in the media, mainly due to weak parliamentary representations followed by oppressive coup periods. Yet eve ... more

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Objectivity in Journalism

Steven Maras

Cambridge; Malden, Mass.: Polity Press (2013), xii, 260 pp.

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Patterns in the Chaos: News and Nationalism in Afghanistan, America and Pakistan During Wartime, 2010-2012

Katherine Ann Brown

New York City: Columbia University, Doctoral Thesis (2013), xxi, 407 pp.

"This dissertation examines the United States’s elite news media’s hegemony in a global media landscape, and how it can come to stand for the entire American nation in the imagination of outsiders. In this transnational, instantaneous digital media arena, what is created for an American audience ... more

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Social Media for Journalists: Principles and Practice

Megan Knigth, Clare Cook

Los Angeles et al.: Sage (2013), 278 pp.

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International News Reporting in the Multidimensional Network: The Socio-Demographics, Professional Culture and Newswork of Foreign Correspondents Working Across Sub-Saharan Africa

Paulo Nuno Gouveia Vicente

Lisboa: Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas (FCSH), Doctoral Thesis (2013), xiv, 282 pp.

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Set of Principles in Fair Use for Journalism

Robert R. McCormick Foundation (2013), 18 pp.

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Starving the Messenger: A Study of Journalists’ Conditions of Service in Malawi

Levi Zeleza Manda, Noel Drake Kufaine

Journal of Development and Communication Studies, volume 2, issue 2-3 (2013), pp. 301-311

"This study used in-depth interviews to investigate the conditions of service and welfare of journalists in Malawi. It found that while the Media Council of Malawi code of professional ethics and standards and in-house policies expected the best out the journalists, the majority of the journalists, ... more

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Challenges and Dangers of Reporting in a Tumultuous Border Region: How Journalists at the 'El Paso Times' Deal with the Violence in Neighboring Ciudad Juarez

Cathleen Carter, Kris Kodrich

Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, volume 90, issue 2 (2013), pp. 331-346

"Journalists at the El Paso Times routinely cover violence in neighboring Ciudad Juarez, where thousands of men, women, and children have been murdered in recent years. Utilizing border theory and research involving journalists and trauma, this qualitative newsroom study examines how journalists at ... more

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Climate Change in Africa: A Guidebook for Journalists

Mike Shanahan, Willie Shubert, Cameron Scherer et al.

Paris: UNESCO (2013), 91 pp.