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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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Recipient Perceptions of Media Development Assistance: A GFMD Study
Global Forum for Media Development (GFMD) (2019), 15 pp.
"GFMD members welcome the international recognition of media and journalism issues within the overall international development agenda, noting the common language it provides and the accountability tool it may offer towards encouraging governments (including donor countries) to live up to their comm
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2018 Global NGO Online Technology Report
Nonprofit Tech for Good; Public Interest Registry (2018), 27 pp.
"Throughout the 2000’s, NGOs experimented with promoting “Donate Now” buttons and online donation pages, and through a process of trial and error, learned a winning strategy that still works today. Specifically, NGOs that are successful at online fundraising have embraced a content strategy of
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Journalist safety trainings: Effective for all?
Australian Journalism Review, volume 40, issue 2 (2018), pp. 53-65
"Safety trainings (STs), also known as hazardous or hostile environment trainings, are evolving as a worldwide industry practice designed to keep journalists safe. However, little is known about the effectiveness of STs, particularly how men and women journalists respond to them. In order to better
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Toward Gender Equality: Women and the Media in Vietnam
Kalmar: Fojo Media Institute (2018), 36 pp.
"The Gender-in-Media Landscape Study (Vietnam) aims to inform the activities of the Southeast Asia Media Training Network by exploring gender equity in the media workplace. Towards this end, data was gathered through a broad survey and multiple focus group discussions. The survey found: More women w
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The Status of Media and the Role of Social Media in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan
Bishkek: Institute for War & Peace Reporting (IWPR) (2018), 53 pp.
"These recommendations are given to media of all four countries as they are important for the development of media in all four countries: It is necessary to create stronger communications between NGOs and the media; to foster cooperation and trust between the civil society and the media; to act as a
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Humanitarian Feedback Mechanisms in the Rohingya Response, Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh
Internews (2018), 53 pp.
"Since August 2017 over 671,000 people (mostly Rohingya) have crossed the border from Myanmar to Bangladesh to escape violence in Rakhine State. There are now more than one million Rohingya refugees staying in campsites along the Bangladeshi side of the border. In September 2017 Internews conducted
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Media Pluralism, Public Trust, and Democracy: New Evidence from Latin America and the Caribbean
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2018), 25 pp.
"There has been a decline in trust in the media in the LAC region. While in 2004 nearly two-thirds of individuals reported having high trust in the media, this result dropped to only half of individuals in 2016/17. Individuals who perceive the media as representative of different viewpoints or who h
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Toward Gender Equity: Women and Media in Cambodia
Kalmar: Fojo Media Institute (2018), 45 pp.
"More men than women work in the media, including in management positions. Women have joined the industry in greater numbers in recent years, particularly through recruitment of university graduates; radio has the highest proportion of young women journalists. A higher proportion of women had full-t
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The State of Humanitarian Journalism
Humanitarian-journalism.net; University of East Anglia (2018), 36 pp.
"Very few international news organisations routinely cover humanitarian affairs. Only 12 news outlets reported on all four of the humanitarian events we analysed in 2016. Because of the high costs of producing regular, original journalism on humanitarian issues, commercial news organisations do not
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Attitudes Towards Media Coverage of Humanitarian Issues Within the Aid Sector
Humanitarian-journalism.net; University of East Anglia (2018), 9 pp.
"There is widespread dissatisfaction within the aid industry with the quantity and quality of mainstream news coverage of humanitarian issues and crises. 73% of respondents agreed that mainstream news media does not produce enough coverage of humanitarian issues. Mainstream news coverage was also re
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Digital Activism Survey on Palestinian Civil Society Organizations: A Questionnaire on Performance, Challenges and Needs
Haifa: 7amleh – Arab Center for Social Media Advancement (2018), 67 pp.
"The results of the questionnaire showed that most Palestinian organizations do think about and deal with media work in general. Since ninety-three percent of the organizations surveyed were already dealing with media, while 58% employed at least one person in a specialist position. Only 32% had a s
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The State of News Photography: Photojournalists’ Attitudes Toward Work Practices, Technology and Life in the Digital Age
University of Stirling; World Press Photo Foundation (2018), 26 pp.
"Among the stand-out results, we found a significant decline in the number of photographers working full-time in photography from 74% of respondents in the first survey in 2015 to 59% in 2018. The report is based on four years of surveys with photographers entering the World Press Photo Foundation
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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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Gendering Leadership in Vietnamese Media: A Role Congruity Study on News Content and Journalists’ Perception of Female and Male Leaders
Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, volume 95, issue 3 (2018), pp. 565-587
"This study combines two research methods to explore how female leaders are portrayed in the news in Vietnam, and Vietnamese journalists’ perception of female and male leaders. Content analysis indicated that female leaders are under- and misrepresented. Female leader sources seldom appear in the
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Mapping Media Development in Myanmar
Yangon: UNESCO; International Programme for the Development of Communication (IPDC) (2018), viii, 49 pp.
"This mapping of the Myanmar media development sector is informed by three activities: a status update of the recommendations in the 2016 Assessment of Media Development in Myanmar report based on UNESCO’s Media Development Indicators, an online survey conducted in March and April 2018, and a seri
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The Digital Nonprofit Skills Assessment
NetHope (2018), 25 pp.
"This Digital Nonprofit Skills (“DNS”) Assessment is the second white paper in a series of benchmarks established by NetHope’s Center for the Digital Nonprofit that provide insight into the opportunities and challenges for transforming the nonprofit sector. The first white paper, the Digital N
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Understanding Nigerian Media and Elections Through Research: Analysis of the 2015 Presidential Election Campaign Messages
Lagos: Association of Communication Scholars & Professionals of Nigeria (ACSPN) (2018), 10 pp.
"1. Political parties and their supporters should concentrate more on issues-based campaign messages than hate campaign messages capable of demeaning personalities, religious/ethnic beliefs as well as ethnicity. 2. Political parties and their candidates should focus more on issue of importance to na
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State of the Newsroom 2017: Fakers and Makers
Johannesburg: University of the Witwatersrand, Wits Journalism (2018), iv, 60 pp.
"The fourth annual report looks at jobs in the newsroom, fake news and fact-checking journalism, and highlights the problem of threats to media freedom in South Africa. In a survey conducted across a range of newsrooms both big and small, it found that young, black women journalists are more likely
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Journalists in Thailand
Worlds of Journalism Study (2017), 5 pp.
"A majority of Thai journalists viewed all roles listed in the questionnaire as very or extremely important. The roles that ranked highest included to report things as they are (88.7%), to provide analysis of current affairs (85.5%), and to be a detached observer (82.1%) (see Table 1). There was lit
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