"This is a summarised report of a study on Ugandan news media coverage of road safety, focusing on the country’s three main daily newspapers, three television stations and two online platforms. The study explored the attention and the nature of coverage these newspapers, television stations and on
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line platforms paid to road safety from 1 March 2023 to 31 November 2023. The publications studied were Bukedde (a Luganda-language daily), Daily Monitor, and New Vision (the only two English-language dailies). The television stations were NBS, NTV Uganda, and UBC while the online platforms were ChimpReports and Uganda Radio Network (URN) [...] Between March and November 2023, a combined total of 766 articles related to road safety were identified across the three media types monitored. Newspapers produced the highest volume of stories followed by television. When considering all media platforms, there’s a varied landscape with no single platform dominating the coverage. This underscores the importance of a multi-channel approach to road safety advocacy, information and other interventions." (Page 3)
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"This study looks at Ugandan news media coverage of road safety, focusing on the country's three main daily newspapers, three television stations, and two online platforms. The study explores the attention and the nature of coverage these media platforms paid road safety (including road traffic cras
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hes and measures to mitigate them) from 1 August 2021 to 31 July 2022. Relying mainly on quantitative content analysis, the study explores the quantity of stories on road safety, the types of articles published (news, analysis, opinion, features, etc.), the reporting formats employed, the topics covered, and the sourcing." (Introduction)
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"Crime perception has increased in Peru, as in other developing and developed countries, in spite of the reduction in crime victimization figures. Our hypothesis is that the news industry is partially responsible for such opposing trends. As Peruvians are great consumers of written news, we focus on
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the written press. Using a unique database of written news, we georeference the location of each reported crime to identify short-term deviations from trend in the coverage of crime news at the province level and estimate their effect on crime perception. We measure coverage as the area an article occupies in cm2. We find that a spike of negative crime news increases people’s perception about the probability of being a crime victim. The effect of positive news is opposite. However, the effect per cm2 of negative news is almost three times larger than the effect of positive news in absolute value, signaling a potential asymmetry in the revision of people’s expectations. The effect of the written press is stronger for men and non-victims. Moreover, perception changes are mostly driven by increases in the fear of house and car theft and common street crime, rather than more violent crimes like kidnapping or sexual abuse. Finally, we delve into the possible consequences of worsening the mismatch between crime perception and crime victimization." (Abstract)
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"Thanks to social media, Peruvian police does a better job in communicating with people. In its videos and posts, it uses celebrities, popular phrases, famous movie scenes or lyrics of well-known songs. Its social media page has been encouraging people to refrain from drinking alcohol when taking th
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e wheel, to double check information found on the internet to avoid fraud, to cycle more to reduce traffic jam and to report assaults or harassment to help police better protect people. Uncle PNP [=the social media account of Peruvian police] replies to people’s queries in a trice, giving them advice or tagging other public institutions on Facebook that are in a better position to help. And it works. Today, more than one million people follow the Peruvian police account on Facebook. There is no better proof that people always enjoy taking advice from their uncles."
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"This guide will support you in creating exciting and impactful content for the airwaves and community outreach activities around gun violence and community safety. Children’s Radio Foundation has partnered with Gun Free South Africa (GFSA) to build the capacity of youth to influence and shape beh
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aviour and attitudes towards gun violence and community safety. They also aim to influence relevant policies, legislation and programming to reduce gun violence through innovative community-based interventions. GFSA is a national non-governmental organisation (NGO) committed to reducing gun violence in South Africa with more than two decades of experience in public policy advocacy, public education, awareness raising and community mobilisation. We have compiled this guide based on our experience and learning in our youth radio projects across South Africa and the African continent. Young people, trained as youth reporters, record the stories and experiences of their peers and their communities and create radio programmes and public events so that we all can learn, connect and make better choices for ourselves. The youth reporters use a guide that helps them understand the topic, choose a focus, research and build a radio show and community outreach." (Introduction)
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"Las pandillas no sólo son protagonistas del miedo en los territorios que controlan, sino también en los medios. La alta cantidad de portadas que ganan, así como la avalancha de notas que tratan sobre ellos o les mencionan, así lo demuestran. Al contrastar los datos arrojados por la muestra del
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año 2015 con los suministrados por investigaciones de carácter regional de años anteriores, se evidencia que los periódicos nacionales superan con creces los promedios latinoamericanos de cobertura sobre violencia e inseguridad. Además de reflejar una curva ascendente en el tiempo, ganando las pandillas cada vez más terreno en la cobertura periodística nacional. Como conclusión para el debate académico se propone que los medios escritos salvadoreños han aportado significativamente a la construcción de narrativas sobre las maras que no permiten profundizar en la complejidad del problema, contribuyendo al desplazamiento de una especie de bola de nieve que ha terminado fortaleciendo la preeminencia de las pandillas en el imaginario público, así como favoreciendo las políticas y los discursos oficiales de corte manodurista." (Página 1)
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"Road traffic is often covered in the media as an event – not as an enormous drain on a country’s health resources or a leading killer of its citizens. By framing traffic safety as a health story, journalists have the opportunity to impact the way these stories are told, and potentially help shi
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ft policy and public reaction." (Internews website)
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"Linked by mobile telephony and supported by geographical information systems, civil society networks now have unprecedented opportunities to develop security-monitoring programs, provide information needed for effective health care, create banking services, and provide farmers with market informati
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on. Remarkably innovative uses of mobile communications, often paired with radio broadcasting, have created entirely new types of institutions that promote transparency, accountability, and security. These evolving institutions are often organic to Africa and pegged to the immediate needs of the communities they serve. Technology innovation centers, created and staffed by African engineers and technicians, are leading the way in developing solutions to longstanding problems. Mobile phones are now irrevocable features of African life, and high-speed Internet connectivity soon will be too. While the new information technologies can, at times, be used for less positive purposes, including crime and politically motivated violence, on the whole they are enhancing human security and sustainable economic development across the continent. As with all technology, on their own they are politically neutral. The key to realizing the positive potential in new technologies in Africa is found in focusing on the human motivations behind them. Policy initiatives, therefore, should focus on encouraging the development of applications that aim to improve human security, accountability, and transparency." (Executive summary)
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"The manual is designed for a three-day workshop. It is accompanied by two sets of PowerPoint slides: Gender and security and Security and security sector reform (SSR) and a Companion workbook. The workbook contains tools, hand-outs, briefing information sheets and selected reading materials. It has
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been designed to be as helpful as possible to trainers. It also contains daily learning diaries and lists of resources on gender and security issues for journalists and civil society. The workbook can be given to participants for use during the workshop and for future reference." (Introduction, page 5)
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"This companion workbook is designed for use in tandem with the Saferworld/IHRICON Training of trainers’ manual on gender and security for the media and civil society in Nepal. It contains tools, hand-outs, briefing information sheets, selected reading materials for exercises, daily learning diari
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es and a list of useful resources on gender and security sector reform (SSR) for journalists and civil society." (Page 2)
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"This report provides a timely review of what is currently known about road safety advertising design and evaluation. Australian and international advertising literature published from 2001 to 2009 was reviewed to determine best practice for road safety mass media campaigns in South Australia. Inste
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ad of determining whether road safety advertising is effective or not, this review focused on what elements of road safety advertising are more effective and for whom. The review describes current psychological theories of behaviour change and social persuasion that are relevant to road safety advertising. In terms of mass media campaign design, factors that can improve campaign effectiveness were identified such as integrating advertising with other activities (e.g. enforcement), tailoring message content and means of communication to the characteristics of the target audience, and using new technology and multiple forms of media to reach the target audience. In addition, the effects of different levels of advertising exposure were considered and the efficacy of threat appeals and alternatives (i.e. positive emotional appeals) were discussed. The review also highlighted the difficulties in establishing the effectiveness of a mass media campaign, considered different evaluation methods and discussed the value of different campaign evaluation measures. Recent campaign evaluations were reviewed to highlight current key issues in campaign evaluation research. The report concludes with constructive recommendations for best practice for road safety mass media campaigns." (Abstract)
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"El tema de la in/seguridad ciudadana fue central en las propuestas electorales de diciembre de 2009 en el país. La “chica mala” del periodismo, tal como denomina Cecilia Lanza a la crónica roja, policial o periodismo amarillista o sensacionalista, se ocupa precisamente de este asunto. Pero,
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cómo lo hace? ¿Desde qué perspectivas asume ese rol de contar los hechos que generalmente cercan la vida de sectores marginales y excluidos de la sociedad? ¿Por qué deberíamos ocuparnos ahora de este tan despreciado e híbrido género? ¿Qué tiene que ver con la responsabilidad social del periodismo y la posibilidad de construir sociedades más democráticas? Y más: ¿realmente el periodismo sensacionalista sólo se restringe a este tipo de géneros? Habida cuenta de su estigma de irresponsabilidad y espectacularidad, ¿debe prescindir de una cierta mínima conducta ética para su desempeño? Son varias las preguntas que trata de responder la presente publicación, fruto de un productivo proceso de capacitación a periodistas llevado adelante en la ciudad de La Paz en noviembre de 2009. Este encuentro/entrenamiento produjo las once historias de crónica policial contadas." (Presentación, página 5)
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