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Afghan journalists in a balancing act: Coping with deteriorating safety
Conflict & Communication Online, volume 18, issue 1 (2019), 16 pp.
"Afghan journalists have been experiencing a deteriorating situation, due to a multitude of threats. They operate in a situation of low popular literacy, as well as low media literacy. Threats from Taliban and other insurgents cause many journalists to live in constant fear. This article is based on
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“They don't trust us; the don't care if we're attacked”: Trust and risk perception in Mexican journalism
Communication & Society, volume 32, issue 1 (2019), pp. 147-158
"Drawing from 93 semi-structured, in-person interviews with journalists from 23 states, this article analyzes the relation between trust and risk perception in Mexican journalism. It focuses on how Mexican journalists perceive and experience public trust placed in them as social actors, and how it i
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Commitment Amid Conflict: The Experience of Central African Journalists Covering Their Country's War
In: Media and Mass Atrocity: The Rwanda Genocide and Beyond
Waterloo, Ontario: Centre for International Governance Innovation (2019), pp. 275-289
"The trend in international newsgathering is to greater reliance on local journalists and fixers to provide crucial information to a global audience. At the same time, these local journalists are themselves becoming targets of violence. Increasingly, local journalists are being killed in the line of
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Coping with Audience Hostility. How Journalists’ Experiences of Audience Hostility Influence Their Editorial Decisions
Journalism Studies, volume 20, issue 16 (2019), pp. 2422-2421
"In digitalized media societies, many journalists encounter audience hostility in publicly visible channels. Scholars theorized on the spiral process of the influence of audience feedback on journalists’ editorial work. In this spiral, audience feedback on past news coverage influences ongoing new
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Crisis Reporters, Emotions, and Technology: An Ethnography
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2019), xviii, 232 pp.
"This open access book explores the emotional labour of crisis reporters in an original style that combines fictional and factual narrative. Exploring how journalists make sense of their emotional experience and development in relation to their professional ideology, it illustrates how media profess
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Journalists and mental health: The psychological toll of covering everyday trauma
Newspaper Research Journal, volume 40, issue 2 (2019), pp. 239-259
"Journalists are often first responders and eyewitnesses to violent news events. Trauma reporting can take its toll, resulting in mental health effects. Addressing the solution requires understanding the problem. This multimethod study used a national survey of journalists (N = 254) that shows that
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Turkey: How to deal with threats to journalism?
In: Transnational Othering – Global Diversities: Media, Extremism and Free Expression
Göteborg: Nordicom (2019), pp. 171-190
"Journalism has always been an unsafe practice in modern Turkey. However, ties between the political system and democracy have been severed by the recent witch-hunt following the most recent failed coup, in 2016, and the subsequent societal collapse triggered by the administration of the state of em
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Fostering Trauma Literacy: From the Classroom to the Newsroom
Journalism & Mass Communication Educator, volume 75, issue 1 (2019), pp. 116-130
"Covering traumatic story assignments is often central to a journalist’s job. Violent crimes, natural disasters, and tragic personal struggles—these are newsworthy events. Studies have associated trauma coverage with higher rates of posttraumatic stress disorder, burnout, and other traumatic str
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Socio-Psychological Effects on Media Professional Standards during Military Operations in Pakistan
Global Social Sciences Review, volume 4, issue 2 (2019), pp. 269-275
"While using qualitative and quantitative techniques, this study analyzes the issues and challenges faced by the journalists while working in the areas going under military operations in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) and FATA. Based on the hierarchy of influences model, a survey was conducted in Wazirista
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Female journalists under attack? Explaining gender differences in reactions to audiences' attacks
New Media & Society, volume 22, issue 10 (2019), pp. 1849-1867
"The literature on public figures attacked by their audiences is unclear why female and male figures react differently to attacks. This study examines why female journalists are more likely than male journalists to use avoidance strategies as a reaction to online attacks. Avoidance includes limiting
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Fear, trauma and local journalists: Cross-border lessons in psychosocial support for journalists
International Media Support (IMS) (2019), 16 pp.
"95 per cent of journalists killed in armed conflict are locally based journalists. While there has been increasing focus on the physical and digital safety issues these journalists face, there has been less attention towards the need for psychosocial support. Addressing psychosocial needs of local
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"An overview of current research on the occupational hazards for journalists covering traumatic events, the risk factors that aggravatethose effects, and some suggestions for mitigating those factors." (Introduction)
Safe Basic Training Curriculum: Safety Training for Media Practitioners and Social Communicators Through the Unique Lens of Physical Awareness, Digital Identity, and Psychosocial Care
Washington, DC: IREX (2018), 75 pp.
"The SAFE (Securing Access to Free Expression) Initiative is IREX’s flagship effort to enable media practitioners and social communicators to work as safely as possible in closed and closing spaces. SAFE serves to equip media practitioners and social communicators with the means to resiliently con
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Symptoms of PTSD in Frontline Journalists: A Retrospective Examination of 18 Years of War and Conflict
Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, volume 63, issue 9 (2018), pp. 629-635
"The objective of the current study was to determine the frequency and severity of symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in journalists covering conflict. Methods: PTSD data (Impact of Event Scale-Revised) collected over an 18-year period from 684 conflict journalists were analyzed retros
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How Journalism Responds to Right-wing Populist Criticism
In: Trust in Media and Journalism: Empirical Perspectives on Ethics, Norms, Impacts and Populism in Europe
Wiesbaden: Springer VS (2018), pp. 137-154
"Right-wing populists often criticise the established media for being untruthful or censoring what critics consider to be important information—for instance, the ethnic background of perpetrators—and for being biased against right-wing populist actors. That hostility towards journalism can be un
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TrollBusters: Fighting Online Harassment of Women Journalists
In: Mediating Misogyny: Gender, Technology, and Harassment
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2018), pp. 311-332
"For women journalists, online harassment may result in emotional stress and may require legal and technological remedies to mitigate the damage caused to their identity and reputation. Perpetrators can use a combination of online and offline attacks that threaten the employment and safety of journa
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Journalists covering the refugee and migration crisis are affected by moral injury not PTSD
Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine Open, volume 9, issue 3 (2018), pp. 1-7
"Objective: To explore the emotional health of journalists covering the migrations of refugees across Europe. Design: Descriptive. A secure website was established and participants were given their unique identifying number and password to access the site. Setting: Newsrooms and in the field. Partic
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Pacific journalists training in dealing with psychological trauma when covering climate change
UNESCO (2017), ?? pp.
"The safety of journalists is not only about physical wellbeing. Safety extends to protection against impending psychological injury resulting from exposure to violence, conflict, disaster and tragedy. Both psychological safety and physical safety are inextricably linked. Research shows that people
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The Assault on Journalism. Building Knowledge to Protect Freedom of Expression
Deep Insights
Göteborg: Nordicom (2017), 363 pp.
"To support joint efforts to protect journalism, there is a growing need for research-based knowledge. Acknowledging this need, the aim of this publication is to highlight and fuel journalist safety as a field of research, to encourage worldwide participation, as well as to inspire further dialogues
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Trauma counseling for journalists: A profession in denial
Media Asia, volume 44, issue 1 (2017), pp. 17-20
"Research suggests between 80 and 90% of journalists have been exposed to a work-related traumatic events such as murder, mass casualties, war and natural disasters. Most journalists exhibit resilience despite repeated exposure to such traumatic events. However, a significant minority are at risk fo
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