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Trauma: Media Representation & Reporting
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Journalist Security Guide: Covering the News in a Dangerous and Changing World
Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) (2013), 70 pp.
"This guide details what journalists need to know in a new and changing world. It is aimed at local and international journalists of varied levels of experience. The guide outlines basic preparedness for new journalists taking on their first assignments around the world, offers refresher information
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U.S. and Finnish Journalists: A Comparative Study of Roles, Responsibilities, and Emotional Reactions to School Shootings
In: School Shootings: Mediatized Violence in a Global Age
Leeds: Emerald Publishing (2012), pp. 141-160
"In the chapter, journalistic work ethics on the scene during school shootings and journalists’ psychological stress reactions after such work is studied. Approach: Findings are based on several qualitative studies carried out separately at different time periods, spanning over a decade. Included
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Journalists’ emotional reactions after working with the Jokela school shooting incident
Media, War & Conflict, volume 5, issue 2 (2012), pp. 175–190
"Journalists’ psychological distress after working with the Jokela school shooting incident was examined with a mixed methods research design using a sample of 196 journalists (27 on the scene, 169 working indirectly with the crisis). Quantitative results were compared to those of a control group
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Covering Trauma in Canadian Journalism: Exploring the Challenges
Traumatology, volume 19, issue 3 (2012), pp. 210-222
"This critical ethnographic study is an investigation of the effects of witnessing trauma for Canadian journalists and photojournalists working on national and international assignments. Our primary aim is to describe our participants’ understanding of the effects of covering trauma, disaster, or
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The mediating effect of depression between exposure to potentially traumatic events and PTSD in news journalists
European Journal of Psychotraumatology, volume 3, issue 18388 (2012), 8 pp.
"Background: News journalists are an occupational group with a unique task at the scene of an unfolding crisis-to collect information and inform the public about the event. By being on location, journalists put themselves at risk for being exposed to the potentially traumatic event.
Objective: To co
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Mental illness among journalists: A systematic review
International Journal of Social Psychiatry, volume 59, issue 4 (2012), pp. 377-390
"Aims: To investigate mental illness among journalists in five key areas: (1) journalists' mental health status; (2) journalists' personal attitudes towards mental illness; (3) attitudes and support journalists expect or have experienced from colleagues when they have a mental health problem; (4) ef
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Journalists as Witnesses to Violence and Suffering
In: The Handbook of Global Communication and Media Ethics
Chichester: Wiley Blackwell (2011), pp. 752-773
Coping with traumatic stress in journalism: A critical ethnographic study
International Journal of Psychology, volume 46, issue 2 (2011), pp. 127-135
"Journalists who witness trauma and disaster events are at risk for physical, emotional, and psychological injury. The purpose of this paper is to present the results of a critical ethnographic study among 31 Canadian journalists and photojournalists with regard to coping strategies used to buffer t
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Press in Stress: Media Under Threat in Balochistan
Islamabad: Intermedia (2011), 20 pp.
"All journalists in Balochistan should undergo conflict sensitive journalism (CSJ) trainings. All journalists should undergo media law clinics to be educated on rights and responsibilities. A Safety Fund for Balochistan should be set up to provide resources on safety and security and address their l
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Handbook for Journalists
Paris: Reporters Without Borders; UNESCO (2010), 108 pp.
"This handbook is to help journalists working in war zones. There is no magic way to avoid a rocket attack or an ambush, but the tips here are based on common sense (which is too often ignored) and should help many journalists solve a lot of problems. We present basic press freedom documents, declar
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The Moment is Frozen in Time: Photojournalists’ Metaphors in Describing Trauma Photography
Journal of Constructivist Psychology, volume 23, issue 3 (2010), pp. 231-255
"In describing their understanding of trauma, disaster, and conflict photography, photojournalists in this qualitative study conceptualized abstract experiences using specific types of metaphors. Their metaphors focused on concepts such as violence, bewilderment, and health/affliction. The unique as
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The effects of exposure to crisis on well-being of journalists: A study of crisis-related factors predicting psychological health in a sample of Finnish journalists
Media, War & Conflict, volume 3, issue 2 (2010), pp. 138–151
"Effects of work-related and personal exposure to potentially traumatic events on PTSD (posttraumatic stress disorder), depression, compassion fatigue and burnout were examined in 503 Finnish news journalists (238 men, 265 women) by using a web-based survey. Stepwise linear multiple regression analy
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Representing Death in the News: Journalism, Media and Mortality
Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan (2010), viii, 199 pp.
"This new study maps and synthesizes existing research on the ways in which journalism deals with death. Folker Hanusch provides a historical overview of death in the news, looks at the conditions of production, content and reception, and also analyzes emerging trends in the representation of death
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Witnessing trauma in the newsroom: Posttraumatic symptoms in television journalists exposed to violent news clips
Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, volume 198, issue 4 (2010), pp. 264-271
"Employees working in television newsrooms are exposed to video footage of violent events on a daily basis. It is yet unknown whether they subsequently develop symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder as has been shown for other populations exposed to trauma through television. We conducted an inte
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From Danger to Trauma Affective Labor and the Journalistic Discourse of Witnessing
"According to recent reports on violence committed against journalists, journalism is a dangerous, fear-inspiring job. In the wake of Daniel Pearl’s kidnapping and murder in January 2002 and the less-publicized but equally brutal killings of journalists in Bangladesh, the Philippines, the wars in
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Media Witnessing: Testimony in the Age of Mass Communication
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (2009), 242 pp.
"From the Holocaust to 9/11, modern communications systems have incessantly exposed us to reports of distant and horrifying events, experienced by strangers, and brought to us through media technologies. In this book leading scholars explore key questions concerning the truth status and broader impl
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The psychological health of contractors working in war zones
Journal of Traumatic Stress, volume 22, issue 2 (2009), pp. 102-105
"This study examines the psychological health of contractors working in war zones. Seventy-nine contractors completed an Internet-based psychiatric assessment. The sample was exclusively male with a mean age of 43 (SD = 7) years. The number of contractors whose scores exceeded the cutoff points for
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Addressing the Effects of Assignment Stress Injury
Journalism Practice, volume 3, issue 2 (2009), pp. 162-177
"The purpose of this article is to present the results of a qualitative study on assignment stress injury within journalism. Thirty-one Canadian journalists and photojournalists participated in the research study. The focus of this article is on recommendations offered by our participants to address
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Zwischen Selbstzensur, Korruption und Bewaffnung: Konsequenzen der Gewalt an Medienvertretern am Beispiel lokaler Radiojournalisten in der philippinischen Provinz
Münster: Lit (2009), v, 152 pp.
"Besonders in der philippinischen Provinz sehen sich kritische Journalisten immer wieder von Gewalt bedroht, die als Reaktion auf Berichte über Korruption, Drogenhandel, Glücksspiel etc. aufflammt. Bei der Studie lag der Fokus auf Radiojournalisten, welche die größte Opfergruppe in dem Land dars
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International News Reporting: Frontlines and Deadlines
Chichester: Wiley Blackwell (2009), xvi, 280 pp.
"A collection of essays by top international correspondants in print, broadcasting, and photojournalism, International News Reporting offers an introduction to journalism written by the people who have made the profession what it is today. Contributors identify the major areas of professional practi
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