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Media, Race and Crime: Racial Perceptions and Criminal Culpability in a Multiracial National Context
International Communication Gazette, volume 77, issue 1 (2015), pp. 24-50
"This study contributes to the limited literature on race and crime in a multicultural Asian context. Based on a survey in Singapore, where multiracialism is a fundamental political pillar and yet discourse about race is mostly shunned, the findings suggest a relationship between media consumption a
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How Can We Tell the Story of the Colombian War? Bastardized Narratives and Citizen Celebrities
Popular Communication: The International Journal of Media and Culture, volume 13, issue 2 (2015), pp. 170-182
"This article explores how popular culture theory can be used in postconflict situations to raise awareness about human rights violations. This case study investigates a media narrative produced by the Memory Center in Colombia, about a political assassination of a community leader. On February 12,
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Racism, Ethnicity and the Media in Africa: Mediating Conflict in the Twenty-First Century
Deep Insights
London: Tauris (2015), xviii,347 pp.
"In today's Africa racism and ethnicity have been implicated in serious conflicts - from Egypt to Mali to South Africa - that have cost lives and undermined efforts to achieve national cohesion and meaningful development. Racism, Ethnicity and the Media in Africa sets about rethinking the role of me
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Positiver Journalismus
Konstanz: UVK (2015), 223 pp.
A High-Risk Profession: Risks and Costs for Mexican Democracy of Journalists in the Middle of the War against Drug Trafficking
In: Using the Narcotrafico Threat to Build Public Administration Capacity between the US and Mexico
London; New York: Routledge (2014), 18 pp.
"Journalism in Mexico has become a high-risk profession. With 137 journalists killed and 14 missing since the start of the “drug wars” there, Mexico has become the Latin American country with the most crimes against journalists (Rodríguez Olvera, 2011). Between 2000 and 2011, the National Commi
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Media Analysis of Albino Killings in Tanzania: A Social Work and Human Rights Perspective
Ethics and Social Welfare, volume 8, issue 2 (2014), pp. 117-134
"Murders of people with albinism are a recently emerging human rights issue in Africa, particularly Tanzania. Thus far, public debates about albino killings in Tanzania and other African countries have been dominated by media reports rather than academic writing. This paper presents the findings of
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"Open justice is a core principle in law, and the fair and accurate reporting of legal proceedings protects and promotes this principle. However, there are circumstances in which the reporting of proceedings or specific information must be restricted in order to protect the integrity of proceedings
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Challenges and Dangers of Reporting in a Tumultuous Border Region: How Journalists at the 'El Paso Times' Deal with the Violence in Neighboring Ciudad Juarez
Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, volume 90, issue 2 (2013), pp. 331-346
"Journalists at the El Paso Times routinely cover violence in neighboring Ciudad Juarez, where thousands of men, women, and children have been murdered in recent years. Utilizing border theory and research involving journalists and trauma, this qualitative newsroom study examines how journalists at
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Violence, Drugs, and Migration in the Border of Ciudad Juárez-El Paso: The Challenges Facing Journalists
"At the beginning of 2008, the war between two powerful Mexican drug cartels generated an incredible wave of violence in some cities along the US-Mexican border. In Ciudad Juárez, located in the northern state of Chihuahua and to the west of the Texas-Mexico border, the feud over control of drug-tr
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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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Informe violencia contra la mujer: La mirada desde los medios. Monitoreo de medios de comunicación
Lima: Calandria (2012), 64 pp.
"El monitoreo de medios de comunicación fue realizado con el apoyo de Solidaridad Internacional y AECID en los meses de setiembre y octubre del 2012 a los medios televisivos (América Televisión, ATV, Frecuencia Latina) y medios de prensa escrita (Trome, El Comercio, Ojo y Perú 21 y en Piura, La
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Cobertura informativa de la violencia en México
Global Media Journal - México, volume 8, issue 15 (2011), 16 pp.
"El análisis del impacto de la violencia en los medios de comunicación no es nuevo. Quizás lo sea la naturaleza de los actos violentos, y la forma en la que tenemos acceso a ellos actualmente. Algunos elementos del contexto en los que se produce la violencia han cambiado, lo mismo que la concepci
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Covering Trauma: A Training Guide
Search for Common Ground, Radio for Peacebuilding Africa (2011), 20 pp.
"All stories about an ordinary person who becomes the victim of abuse require extra sensitivity, because survivors of abuse – whether the abuse is physical, emotional or political – are usually survivors of a traumatic event. There are many kinds of traumatic events. A terrible car crash, an ear
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Reporting Family Violence: 'Just Another Incident'
In: Communication, Culture & Society in Papua New Guinea: Yu Tok Wanem?
Madang: DWU Press, Divine Word University (2011), pp. 74-82
"The findings from this stuy indicate that the Papua New Guinea (PNG) press is not helping to highlight and address the issue of family violence, which is a social hindrance to development in PNG. This is supported by arguments of lack of prominence given to family violence stories, unreliable sourc
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