"Fourteen million people are living in poverty in the UK – that’s one in five of us. We see poverty in countless stories: families struggling to make ends meet, soaring housing costs pushing people into debt, the rise of insecure and low-paid work, unequal access to resources, flaws in the benef
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its system cutting people adrift. This year, we’ve seen new issues: the pandemic leaving many children in low-income families unable to access vital digital resources, and millions more people swept into debt and hunger. This guide is for journalists who want to report on these complex issues accurately, sensitively and powerfully. We know today’s newsrooms are more stretched than ever, that journalists are doing ever more work in less time, and that journalists themselves are in a difficult industry. This guide aims to help." (Introduction)
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"This guide will offer a range of tools and methods that can be used to promote a more inclusive form of journalism and storytelling, with marginalised groups and individuals. It’s based on over half a decade of experience and making award-winning, high-impact content in collaboration with reporte
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rs from marginalised communities all over the world - from garment workers in Bangladesh and people living with dementia in the UK, to quarantined villages covering the Ebola crisis in Sierra Leone. This isn’t intended as a definitive guide. Every context will have its own unique challenges and every organisation will have its own workflows, outputs and audiences. This is an introduction to a framework to make journalism inclusive and empowering and borrows heavily from lessons learned from community organising, service design and the humanitarian sector." (Page 3)
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"Fallar en el tratamiento del suicidio (publicitar el método, el lugar, simplificar las causas) puede provocar un efecto contagio en personas vulnerables. Acertar, al contrario, puede ser un pilar muy importante en la prevención. Pero no es sencillo informar bien sobre el suicidio. Tantas décadas
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de silencio ha dejado a los periodistas huérfanos de formación. Y ese silencio, precisamente, lo que más ha contagiado ha sido eso, más silencio. Un silencio social que lleva a los que sufren a callar en lugar de hablar y pedir ayuda; un silencio que cristaliza el tabú y el estigma, que agrava el duelo insoportable de los supervivientes, que hace invisible cualquier presión a los gobiernos para actuar? Ha llegado el momento de hablar del suicidio. Los medios no pueden seguir callados ante una realidad que se llevó 3.569 vidas en España en 2016, el doble que por accidente de tráfico, doce veces más que por homicidio y 81 veces más que por violencia de género. Hablemos de una vez por todas del suicidio. Pero hablemos bien." (Editorial)
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"With this guide, I aim to help journalists navigate the ethical dilemmas they encounter as they interview people who have experienced harm. While there are numerous practical guides on such interviewing, especially on trauma journalism, I have yet to find a guide that explores the deeper ethical qu
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estions of what conditions, if any, make such journalism morally justifiable and not purely extractive or voyeuristic. I’ve also encountered little public record of journalists discussing these ethical questions though I am confident that such conversations happen, whether at conferences or in private. This guide aims to bring those conversations to the wider public so that journalists and non-journalists alike can see how some of us are thinking through these questions and trying new approaches in search of a more mutually beneficial journalism." (Introduction, page 2)
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"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 respons
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ibly 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." (Publisher description)
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"Esta guÃa de estilo [que] tiene como objetivo ofrecer a periodistas datos y claves sobre la manera más adecuada para informar acerca de temas o aspectos relacionados con la salud mental. Con el fin de que los y las profesionales de la comunicación puedan generar información veraz, contrastada y
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avalada por los 35 años de trabajo de la Confederación, se edita esta GuÃa que ya tuvo dos ediciones anteriores: una en 2003 y otra en 2008. Esta nueva versión actualiza datos, revisa contenidos, propone nuevas fórmulas comunicativas y pone el foco en nuevas realidades que han de ser tenidas en cuenta .. Los medios de comunicación juegan un papel fundamental y definitorio a la hora de acabar con ese estigma. Utilizar las palabras adecuadas, ofrecer información con carácter positivo que promocione el cuidado de la salud mental, evitar la estigmatización a través de imágenes, dar datos contrastados o permitir que sean las personas con trastorno mental las que cuenten sus propias historias, son algunas de las claves que pueden ayudar a romper esta losa [de estigmatización] definitivamente." (Introducción)
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"Human trafficking, which is closely linked to slavery and forced labour, is a complex social problem that requires thoughtful, informed and, above all, compassionate journalism to provide context, give voice to the victims and assist in the search for solutions. Media and journalism should play a p
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ositive role in persuading the world that trafficking can be diminished if not eradicated. Political leaders and the public at large need to read, hear and see the full story. It is an essential first step in generating the political will needed to overcome the fundamental causes of human trafficking. The advice and suggestions set out in these pages can help journalists to think twice about how they report on trafficking; to consider the legal and human rights issues involved; the treatment of the victims, their privacy and welfare; and how to tell the story with humanity and style while helping audiences to understand better what must be done." (Introduction)
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