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Ethical Reporting of Sensitive Topics book cover

1st Edition

Ethical Reporting of Sensitive Topics

Edited By Ann Luce Copyright 2019
308 Pages
by Routledge

308 Pages
by Routledge

308 Pages
by Routledge
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Ethical Reporting of Sensitive Topics explores the underlying complexities that journalists may face when covering difficult news stories. 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... Read more
  1. Introduction

    2. Ann Luce

    Section One: Ethics, Responsibility and Self-Care

  2. Journalism Standards on the Job

    3. Chris Frost

  3. Learning to Cope with the Tough Times

    4. Lyn Barnes

    Section Two: Reporting Sensitive Topics

  4. Reporting Child Sexual Abuse

    5. Amanda Gearing

  5. Reporting Suicide

    6. Ann Luce

    Section Three: Reporting Violence

  6. Reporting Mass Shootings

    7. Glynn Greensmith

  7. Reporting Urban Violence and Gangs

    8. Mathew Charles

    Section Four: Reporting Health

  8. Reporting ‘Critical’ Health Journalism

    9. John Lister

  9. Reporting on Drugs, Diets, Devices and Other Health Interventions

    10. Kim Walsh-Childers

    Section Five: Reporting Science and the Environment

  10. Reporting Controversial Science

    11. Shelley Thompson & Hilary Stepien

  11. Reporting Climate Change

    12. Bob Wyss

  12. Reporting Natural Disasters in the Digital Age

    13. Amanda Gearing

    Section Six: Reporting Cultural, Ethnic and Geographical Difference

  13. Reporting on ‘Other’ Cultures

    14. Alex Wake

  14. Reporting on International Migration

Jeremaiah Opiniano

Conclusion: Further Hints and Tips

Index

Biography

Ann Luce is a Principal Academic in Journalism and Communication at Bournemouth University, UK. She worked for nearly ten years in journalism in the United States. She is author of The Bridgend Suicides: Suicide and the Media (2016), and editor of Midwifery, Childbirth and the Media (2017). She currently sits on the World Media Task Force for the Reporting of Suicide.

 

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