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Responsible Reporting on Sexual Violence: A Review of Bangladeshi Print Media Practice

Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2022), 25 pp.
"How did that impact the media's ability to tell this story? Did this period of protest have coverage that centred on survivors and the rights of women, or did the media fixate on voyeuristic representations of violence? Did the reports challenge rape myths and the culture of shame that demonstrators spoke up against, or did they repeat sexist stereotypes that end up reinforcing gender inequality? And finally, how can media coverage of sexual violence be made more gender-sensitive and trauma-informed? These are some of the questions that the author attempted to answer in this paper." (Introduction)
Introduction, 3
Why does it matter how media reports on sexual violence? 6
A brief history of Bangladeshi media (and why I focused on print), 8
What does a responsible report on sexual violence look like? 10
How did we do? And how do we do it better? 15
Conclusion, 25