"In today’s climate in the media industry, reporters are expected to cover a broad range of issues. They no longer have the luxury of concentrating on a small piece of a larger puzzle, and at times, they may feel as if they need a better understanding of the background information before moving fo
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rward. Covering eight different topics, this book is not intended to provide reporters with in-depth information on any single topic. It is, instead, intended to provide the necessary building blocks on a variety of themes, and to assist journalists in seeing each story they tackle through a variety of ‘lenses’. This book is also based on a belief that a holistic approach to reporting is important in today’s media industry. The links between the economic recession, poverty, food insecurity, water issues, rural issues, xenophobia, gender issues and children’s issues cannot be emphasised enough." (Introduction)
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"En 2008 las noticias relacionadas con la niñez y la adolescencia disminuyeron cerca de un 15% en relación al año anterior. El tema más tratado continuó siendo Educación en el marco de la extensa y polémica aprobación de la Ley General de Educación en el Parlamento nacional. El cambio más
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significativo respecto a 2007 fue la aparición de los asuntos de Violencia en el segundo lugar del ranking de los temas más tratados, y la pérdida de presencia en un 35% de los asuntos de Salud en el total de la cobertura, relegada en este período al tercer lugar. Un orden de interés que asemeja los periódicos uruguayos a la mayoría de los medios de la región monitoreados por las agencias de la Red ANDI América Latina, de los cuales se habían diferenciado con el destaque en el período anterior de los asuntos de la Sanidad Humana por sobre los de la Violencia. Se mantuvo la tendencia mostrada en 2007 acerca de la concentración de la atención de la prensa en pocos temas, ya que apenas siete asuntos acumulan alrededor del 80% de las notas publicadas." (Resumen ejecutivo, página 7)
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"[...] This setting directly underscores the challenge Latin America confronts as the most unequal continent on earth. It also reinforces the regional news media’s critical role in monitoring government action and fostering debate on public policies aimed at guaranteeing and promoting the rights o
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f children. This publication is designed to assist the media on these two fronts. The pages below are based on a study conducted by the Brazilian News Agency for Children’s Rights (Agência de Notícias dos Direitos da Infância – ANDI) and the member agencies of the ANDI Latin America Network (Rede ANDI América Latina) of the news media’s coverage in 12 countries from 2005 to 2007. A total of 795,000 stories were reviewed covering a diversity of topics related to the rights and quality of life of the youngest age groups. The results point to progress, particularly in the number of published articles, a development that is both promising and reveals, in relation to the previous survey, a growing interest on the part of the media in issues connected to the social agenda. At the same time, the analysis indicates the need to foster a more pluralistic and contextualized approach through more indepth consideration of the phenomena affecting children and of the proposed solutions to the challenges confronting them." (Introduction)
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"La Oficina de la OIT en Argentina, con apoyo de su Programa Internacional para la Erradicación del Trabajo Infantil (IPEC), ha elaborado esta herramienta que reúne los temas centrales que debe afrontar y resolver un periodista en su trabajo cotidiano. Esperamos que esta Guía para periodistas y c
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omunicadores, contribuya a enriquecer las producciones, mejorar el tratamiento de los contenidos y la edición de las notas, en definitiva, favorezca la presentación del tema de un modo responsable. Con el fin de facilitar el acceso a su contenido, el documento se ha estructurado en base a preguntas, promoviendo la reflexión sobre el tratamiento de la información requerida al abordar periodísticamente el tema del trabajo infantil. Los avances en la erradicación del trabajo infantil a nivel mundial han evidenciado el papel clave que tienen los medios de comunicación para hacer visible la necesidad de defender los derechos de los niños, contribuir a romper el círculo de la pobreza y aportar en la construcción de un futuro más justo." (Introducción)
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"This paper asks how images of children are used by prominent signatories to NGO codes of conduct. The answer is that images of childhood and shared codes of conduct are both means through which development and relief NGOs produce themselves as rights-based organisations. The iconography of childhoo
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d expresses institutional ideals and the key humanitarian values of humanity, neutrality and impartiality, and solidarity. Images of children are useful for NGOs in reinforcing the legitimacy of their ‘emergency’ interventions as well as the very idea of development itself. But the dominant iconography is also inherently paradoxical, as the child image can be read as both a colonial metaphor for the majority world and as a signifier of humanitarian identity. The question then for NGOs using this image in social justice campaigns is whether overtly political accompanying texts can nullify the contradictory subliminal messages that emanate from the iconography of childhood." (Abstract)
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"The Encyclopedia of Children, Adolescents, and the Media presents state-of-the-art research and ready-to-use facts on the media's interaction with children and adolescents. With more than 400 entries, the two volumes of this resource cover the traditional and electronic media and their controversia
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l impact—for good and ill—on children and adolescents." (Publisher description)
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"Welcome to this module on children‘s rights for journalists. The objective of the module is to provide you, the trainee journalist, with the concepts and the information that will help you to develop responsible news reporting skills that appreciate and respect children's rights [...] The module
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is organised into two main units. Unit 1, Introducing Children‘s Rights, provides the background to why understanding rights is so important and will look at good practice as well as the problems and challenges that arise in reporting news concerning children. Unit 2, Children‘s Rights and Professional Journalism Practice, deals with professional journalism practice from a children's rights perspective and looks at the policies and the contexts in which we need to think about how to improve our work as journalists. The material presented here should be read alongside the many supporting references and recommendations for further reading. We hope that what you learn in the module will provide a foundation and a reference point for all forms of news reporting but particularly so when children are central to the story." (Pages 5-7)
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