Binding: Paperback
Description: Ethical Reporting of Sensitive Topics explores the underlying complexities that journalists may face when covering difficult news stories. Reporting on issues such as suicide sexual abuse or migration is a skill that is often glossed over in a journalist's education. By combining theory and practice this collection will correct this oversight and give journalists the expertise and understanding to report on these subjects responsibly and ethically. Contributors to this volume are an international group of journalists - turned - academics who share their first - hand experiences and unique professional insight into best ethical journalistic practice for reporting on sensitive topics. Drawing from a range of case studies contributors discuss the most appropriate approach to for example describing a shooter who has killed a group of schoolchildren or interviewing someone who has lost everything in a natural disaster. Readers are invited to consider factors which have the potential to influence the reporting of these sorts of topics including bias sensationalism conflict of interest grief vulnerability and ignorance of one's own privilege. Ethical Reporting of Sensitive Topics aims to support all journalists from students of journalism and individuals encountering a newsroom for the first time to those veteran journalists or specialist journalists who seek to better their reporting skills.
Title: Ethical Reporting Of Sensitive Topics
Brand: Taylor & Francis Inc
Barcode: 9780815348665
Pages: 294 Pages, 4 Tables, Black And White; 1 Line Drawings, Black And White
Publication Date: 3/5/2019
Category: Press & Journalism