"The notion of survival skills and safety guidelines has been slow to catch on with top media managers in the United States. In Europe, the BBC, ITN and Reuters mandate training for foreign correspondents. It has taken an era of international terrorism to spark a stronger push on the home front." (A
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"Aiming to improve the quality and consistency of work within the area of human rights reporting, this report considers media's capacity to provide accurate, reliable, and timely information on issues that involve human rights. For this purpose, it provides an examination of the main issues as well
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as draws lessons from experiences for the purpose of making recommendations to the journalistic profession, policymakers, and human rights advocates. The report includes discussions on: human rights as a news topic, covering human rights, definitions; human rights and the media in history; professional environment: Context, trends and constraints; editorial process: Newsworthiness, Burundi and Iraq, culture of breaking news; bias, advocacy and precision: Institutional and political bias, propaganda and distortion; recommendations to media, governments, international and human rights organisations. The report concentrates on news and draws from experiences of individuals in several parts of Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, South Eastern Europe and South Asia." (https://reliefweb.int)
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"Sharing the Front Line and the Back Hills" points to a crisis facing international institutions and the media who seek to alleviate and report human suffering throughout the world. The goals of the editor are to tell the story of thousands of individuals dedicated to helping others; and to integrat
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e issues of protection and care into all levels of planning, implementing and evaluating international intervention and action. The book identifies approaches that have proven useful and explores and suggests future directions." (Publisher description)
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"Kurze Darstellung und "lessons learned" von 7 Fallbeispielen, v.a. Radiosendern. Der Autor stellt u.a. fest: "Medienprojekte werden von westlichen NGOs erst dann gestartet, wenn ein gewaltsamer Konflikt vorbei ist. Medienprojekte mit ausgesprochenem Präventionscharakter sind nahezu unbekannt, auch
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wenn sie dringend nötig wären" (Seite 39). Er empfiehlt u.a. eine "Revitalisierung" der früheren GTZ-Medienarbeit, denn diese stelle eine "gelungene und international renommierte Mischung aus professioneller Beratung bei der Institutionalisierung von demokratischen Mediensystemen und Sozialarbeit mittels Medien" (Seite 47) dar." (commbox)
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"This guide considers the role of media in conflict and crisis areas, examines media projects established to provide information to affected populations in conflict situations, either during crisis or in the post-conflict period. Its four main sections discuss: Designing programmes for populations i
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n crisis; Humanitarian information programmes; Media projects for peace-building; Measuring impact: The difficult field of impact evaluation. Produced with the support of the European Commission Humanitarian Aid Office (ECHO), the guide originated from a conference in 1998 entitled Strengthening Lifeline Media in Regions of Conflict, which brought together media professionals and experts in conflict resolution to examine how media could impact on peace-building in conflict situations." (https://reliefweb.int)
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"Les articles sont issus de trois conférences organisées à Accra en 1996, Kampala en 1997 et Accra en 1999 sur le thème "Les médias et la construction de la paix en Afrique". Le comportement et la coresponsabilité des médias pendant le génocide rwandais de 1994 ont été à l'origine de cett
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e réflexion. Dans ce contexte, les auteurs s'interrogent sur le rôle que les journalistes doivent (ou peuvent) jouer dans les sociétés africaines en cas de conflit et sur la possibilité pour eux d'adopter une attitude impartiale lorsque l'État justifie la répression sous diverses formes par l'argument de la sécurité nationale. Les explications d'ordre général sont étayées par des exemples individuels détaillés." (DÜI-Wgm)
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