"Live News: A Survival Guide for Journalists, is carefully tailored to help journalists to prepare themselves mentally, physically and psychologically before engaging on an assignment that can be very dangerous. The guiding tips provided in the text help to prepare the journalists mentally before, he/she moves into a hostile environment or an area that he/she is not familiar with. In trying to bring the news “home” so many journalists have been killed in the process. Some are deliberately targeted, while others are killed in what is now termed as “friendly fire”. A lot more die in accident related cases or at times fall seriously ill while on such mission or sustain serious injuries through natural causes. Live News: A Survival Guide for Journalists tries to minimise such occurrences by giving survival tips to journalists who might find themselves in critical conditions." (Preface)
Contents
PART I: BE PREPARED
1 Preparing to work in hostile environments, 1
PART II: THE DANGER ZONE
2 War zones and conflict areas, 13
3 Riots and civil disorder, 27
4 Abductions, hostage taking and targeting journalists, 33
PART III: THE RECOVERY ZONE
5 Emergency medical aid, 49
6 Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, 57
APPENDICES
Appendix 1: International Code of Practice for the Safe Conduct of Journalism, 66
Appendix 2: Know Your Rights, 68
Appendix 3: Journalists killed in Africa from 1990 to 2006, 75