"Aiming to improve the quality and consistency of work within the area of human rights reporting, this report considers media's capacity to provide accurate, reliable, and timely information on issues that involve human rights. For this purpose, it provides an examination of the main issues as well as draws lessons from experiences for the purpose of making recommendations to the journalistic profession, policymakers, and human rights advocates. The report includes discussions on: human rights as a news topic, covering human rights, definitions; human rights and the media in history; professional environment: Context, trends and constraints; editorial process: Newsworthiness, Burundi and Iraq, culture of breaking news; bias, advocacy and precision: Institutional and political bias, propaganda and distortion; recommendations to media, governments, international and human rights organisations. The report concentrates on news and draws from experiences of individuals in several parts of Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, South Eastern Europe and South Asia." (https://reliefweb.int)