"This concise and authoritative work offers the latest guidance on journalism ethics for students and media professionals and will help empower news consumers to make informed decisions about the trustworthiness of their sources of information. It offers advice on all aspects of journalism ethics in
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cluding accuracy and seeking the truth, representation of women, LGBTQ coverage, climate change, mental health, use of images, conflict reporting, elections, and how to use artificial intelligence. The author brings a unique perspective and depth of knowledge to the complex challenges facing journalists and news consumers in this era of fake news, disinformation, and artificial intelligence." (Publisher description)
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"At Oxfam it is important that the language we use reflects our values and work. Language has the power to reinforce or deconstruct systems of power that maintain poverty, inequality and suffering. Choices in language can empower us to reframe issues, rewrite tired stories, challenge problematic ide
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as and build a radically better future based on a survivor-centred, intersectional, anti-racist and feminist vision of equality." (Page 5)
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"[...] El acercamiento a los familiares de las Personas Privadas de la Libertad (PPL) resulta primordial para obtener una comprensión integral de la realidad en el interior de los centros carcelarios del país. Sin embargo, es importante destacar que el ejercicio de visibilizar sus voces demanda em
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patía y sensibilidad social, sobre todo en un momento en el que se ha generado desconfianza en la prensa. De acuerdo con Bessy Granja, “tienen miedo y decepción porque al final siempre nos enfocamos en que en las cárceles se matan entre todos”.
Hay que recordar siempre que tanto los funcionarios, como los familiares de los PPL y los mismos PPL son fuentes. Es decir, que el vínculo que se establece con ellos debe ser el de periodista y fuente y no más allá de eso. La relación debe mantenerse siempre en el marco de lo profesional y los periodistas debemos ser siempre transparentes sobre nuestras intenciones y objetivos para comunicarnos con ellos. De este modo, estaremos protegiendo nuestra integridad y trabajo.
Es importante que los y las periodistas se replanteen la manera en la que se realiza el acercamiento con los familiares de las PPL, generando espacios seguros en que los testimonios, desde la empatía y la sensibilidad. De acuerdo con Granja, muchos de los familiares no confían en la prensa porque sienten que la forma en la que han sido retratados ellos y sus seres queridos que están dentro de prisión ha sido revictimizante o estigmatizante.
Dar protagonismo a las PPL, de igual forma que se consideran a las fuentes oficiales. Para Noroña, “que ellas y ellos hablen en las historias es fundamental. Que esas voces sean visibilizadas permite humanizar y tener una perspectiva de primera mano, porque permite romper con el imaginario social”.
Cuando se muestran historias de PPL y sus familias, hacerlo desde el respeto. Esto aplica no solo para las historias en texto, sino también para el contenido fotográfico, audiovisual y multimedia que generen los periodistas. En el caso de que una fuente solicite el anonimato, esto debe respetarse, no solamente guardando la identidad de la fuente, sino que en el caso de retratos y video, ocultando el rostro o cualquier rasgo identificable de esa persona. Asimismo, se recomienda que los titulares y la información que se maneje no sea sensacionalista o amarillista, que se respete el dolor de los protagonistas buscando no revictimizarlos y que la información esté libre de estigmas y prejuicios.
Contar historias en positivo, para comenzar a humanizar. Por ejemplo, narrar sobre las personas que están tratando de cambiar las realidades desde adentro de las prisiones." (Conclusiones y recomendaciones generales)
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"With this guide, I aim to help journalists navigate the ethical dilemmas they encounter as they interview people who have experienced harm. While there are numerous practical guides on such interviewing, especially on trauma journalism, I have yet to find a guide that explores the deeper ethical qu
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estions of what conditions, if any, make such journalism morally justifiable and not purely extractive or voyeuristic. I’ve also encountered little public record of journalists discussing these ethical questions though I am confident that such conversations happen, whether at conferences or in private. This guide aims to bring those conversations to the wider public so that journalists and non-journalists alike can see how some of us are thinking through these questions and trying new approaches in search of a more mutually beneficial journalism." (Introduction, page 2)
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"Als Journalistinnen und Journalisten arbeiten wir jeden Tag mit unserem Handwerkszeug, der Sprache. Unsere Berichte sollten möglichst wertfrei, korrekt und präzise die Sachverhalte wiedergeben. Nicht selten passiert es aber, dass Wörter wie »Einwanderer«, »Zuwanderer« und »Migrant« im selb
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en Text nebeneinander verwendet werden, in der Annahme, sie würden alle dasselbe bedeuten. Worin sich diese Begriffe unterscheiden und bei welchen weiteren Themen ungenau formuliert wird, erläutern wir in diesem Glossar. Die Alternativbegriffe, die wir dazu anbieten sind als Vorschläge zu verstehen und sollen als Hilfestellung für die tägliche Redaktionsarbeit dienen." (Seite 5)
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"Any town, city or region offers us a diverse audience. That diversity might be in terms of social class, economic status, gender and age as much as religion, ethnicity or disability. So in this ebook we are looking to question our attitudes and assumptions about a range of issues and then offer som
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e ideas for embedding a wider world view into that staple for BJTC courses, newsdays. We wanted to make this a practical guide for our vocational students who’re already packing a lot into each day on the course. So the sections are short and written by current and former journalists to show the relevance of these issues to their working lives. We asked them to write a short opinion piece on a topic which affects them, personally or through professional interest. These form the starting points for a discussion in class, to be followed up by working through some of the suggestions in the ‘everybody in’ section; developing contacts and doing newsdays from a different angle." (Introduction)
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"Societal ideas and explanations of albinism at the local level in Tanzania are conceived in terms of family history, social relations, economic status, moral-religious positions, global-local flows of information and humanitarian actions on behalf of people with the congenital condition. This paper
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aims to show how the subjectivities of people with albinism in Tanzania are shaped and re-shaped through local moral conceptions as well as globalizing (bio)medical explanations of albinism. An exemplary case study of a 28-year-old woman, plus episodes from the lives of seven other informants with the condition, are analyzed in order to understand, on the one hand, local social relationships between people with albinism and other individuals in family and community settings, and on the other hand, the interconnections between persons with albinism and global humanitarian actors and the broadcast media. When stigma and marginalizing behaviors are perceived by individuals with albinism in Tanzania as impeding their social lives, they employ different coping strategies and discourses to enhance social acceptance." (Abstract)
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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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