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Journalism
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COVID-19: Remote Reporting & Broadcast Toolkit

Children’s Radio Foundation (CRF) (2020), 34 pp.
"The Children’s Radio Foundation (CRF) currently trains youth reporters at 68 radio stations across six African countries (The Democratic Republic of Congo, Liberia, Ivory Coast, South Africa, Tanzania, and Zambia) to produce weekly radio shows and monthly outreach activities [...] This toolkit ha ... more

Reporting on Gender-Based Violence in Humanitarian Settings: A Journalist's Handbook

UNFPA Arab States Regional Humanitarian Response Hub, 2nd ed. (2020), 35 pp.
"By not adhering to rigid standards of professionalism, journalists can unwittingly become part of the problem, causing further trauma to survivors and allowing perpetrators to evade prosecution [...] This handbook was developed to help journalists report on gender-based violence (GBV) with greater ... more

Investigative Journalism Handbook

Al Jazeera Media Institute (2020), 99 pp.
"Arab journalists operate in an entirely different environment from their counterparts elsewhere. They face not only censorship from state and society, but also the impossibility of obtaining even basic open source information. The need to present models that speak to all the contradictory aspects o ... more

Guidelines on Responsible Representation and Reporting of Violence Against Women and Violence Against Children

UNICEF Regional Office for South Asia; UNFPA Asia Pacific Regional Office; UN Women Asia Pacific Regional Office (2020), 35 pp.
"These guidelines are meant to promote responsible, ethical and safe representation and reporting of violence against women and violence against children. These guidelines highlight many basic, sometimes common sense approaches that are all too often ignored. Real-life situations may be even more co ... more

10 Tips for Reporting on Disinformation

Data & Society Research Institute (2020), 4 pp.
"For journalists, disinformation presents a unique challenge; while they are guided by the mission of exposing wrongdoing to hold power to account, they are also one of the most common targets of disinformation campaigns. Without realizing it, journalists can amplify disinformation simply by doing t ... more
"Para contribuir a que las sociedades entiendan de una mejor manera los problemas a los que se enfrentan los migrantes y busquen en conjunto soluciones que mejoren la convivencia, nació Puentes de Comunicación. El proyecto está impulsado por el medio digital venezolano Efecto Cocuyo y la organiza ... more

Guidance on Reporting Sexual Offences

Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO) (2020), 17 pp.
"There are legal protections for victims of sexual offences. The Editors’ Code of Practice also puts restrictions on reporting of sexual offences to protect the identity of victims. Carefully consider the information you want to publish to ensure that a victim is not identified, or likely to be id ... more

Media Guidelines for Reporting Suicide

Samaritans (2020), 14 pp.

Manual de género para periodistas y medios de comunicación

Santiago de Chile: Asociación Nacional de Mujeres Periodistas (ANMPE) (2020), 18 pp.
"Este manual, que contiene recomendaciones para impulsar la igualdad de género en el tratamiento de las noticias, ha sido creado por la Asociación Nacional de Mujeres Periodistas (ANMPE), tomando como punto de partida la revisión de varios otros manuales existentes en el extranjero que abordan es ... more

Safety of Female Journalists Online: A #SOFJO Resource Guide

Vienna: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media (2020), 231 pp.
"Online harassment and abuse against women journalists has become a major hazard to the profession. One that threatens women journalists’ ability to do their jobs. It violates their right to freedom of expression as much as it hampers free and open access to information for all members of society. ... more

Fighting the Spread of False Information: A Fact-Checking and Verification Toolkit

Johannesburg: Africa Check; Fojo Media Institute (2020), 13 pp.
"This fact-checking and verification toolkit was developed by Africa Check for African journalists. It aims to equip journalists with the knowledge and practical tips to stop the spread of false information. This toolkit, which was developed as the world was in the midst of its battle against the Co ... more

Reporting Poverty: A Guide for Media Professionals

London: ATD Fourth World; Church Action on Poverty; Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF); National Union of Journalists; On Road Media (2020), 24 pp.
"Fourteen million people are living in poverty in the UK – that’s one in five of us. We see poverty in countless stories: families struggling to make ends meet, soaring housing costs pushing people into debt, the rise of insecure and low-paid work, unequal access to resources, flaws in the benef ... more
"This Issue Paper examines nearly 1,500 news articles from four EU member states (Germany, Italy, Spain and the Czech Republic) published between May 2019 and July 2020. It shows that disinformation narratives about migration seek to exploit readers’ fears to polarise public opinion, manufacture d ... more

Traitement mediatique des questions relatives aux personnes vulnerables

Centre Africain de Perfectionnement des Journalistes et Communicateurs (CAPJC); Media Up Programme d’Appui aux Médias Tunisiens (2020), 91 pp.