Human Rights Journalism

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Advances in Reporting Distant Humanitarian Interventions

ISBN: 0230321429
ISBN 13: 9780230321427
Autor: Shaw, I
Verlag: Springer Verlag GmbH
Umfang: xvi, 281 S.
Erscheinungsdatum: 15.11.2011
Auflage: 1/2011
Produktform: Gebunden/Hardback
Einband: Gebunden

The first scholarly book to focus exclusively on the conceptualisation of human rights journalism based on the reporting of distant humanitarian interventions by the mainstream Western media Demonstrates how journalists have an ethical obligation not only to witness but to monitor, investigate and report on all human rights violations Illuminates the ways in which journalists can create a more informed and empowered public sphere Case studies include civil war in Sierra Leone, Somalia, Rwanda, Ethiopia, the EU-Africa summit in Lisbon 2007 and reporting of asylum seekers and refugees in the UKCalls for a more robust proactive/preventative – rather than dramatic reactive/prescriptive – role for the media in humanitarian intervention

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Beschreibung

Shaw argues that journalism should focus on deconstructing the underlying structural and cultural causes of political violence such as poverty, famine and human trafficking, and play a proactive (preventative), rather than reactive (prescriptive) role in humanitarian intervention.

Autorenporträt

IBRAHIM SEAGA SHAW is Senior Lecturer at the University of Northumbria, UK. With a background in journalism spanning 26 years in Sierra Leone, Britain and France, he edited Sierra Leone's award winning Expo Times newspaper in the mid 1990s. He holds a PhD from the Sorbonne and is co-editor of Expanding Peace Journalism (2011).

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