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Wider die Symbiose: Plädoyer für die Professionalisierung der Verhältnisse zwischen Hilfsorganisationen und Journalisten
Publizistik, volume 56, issue 3 (2011), pp. 327-340
"The analysis deals with the presentation of hunger and related emergencies in the mass media. It focuses on problems and structures of journalistic production processes and symbiotic relationships between the media and the aid industry. Mass media often create the impression that “hunger” occur
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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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Public Sentinel: News Media and Governance Reform
Deep Insights
Washington, DC: World Bank (2010), xxi, 420 pp.
"This book highlights the importance of the news media as watchdogs, agenda setters and gatekeepers for the quality of democratic deliberation in the public sphere. At the same time, it theorizes that the capacity of journalists and media systems to fulfill these roles depends on the broader context
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The Green Pen: Environmental Journalism in India and South Asia
New Delhi et al.: Sage (2010), xv, 303 pp.
"This is the first book on environmental journalism in South Asia. It provides an important benchmark for journalism in the region as well as an excellent source of material for the future evolution of environmental journalism. This is a collection of essays by prominent Indian and South Asian envir
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Investigative journalism in China: Eight cases in Chinese watchdog journalism
Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press (2010), vi, 184 pp.
"Despite persistent pressure from state censors and other tools of political control, investigative journalism has flourished in China over the last decade. This volume offers a comprehensive, first-hand look at investigative journalism in China, including insider accounts from reporters behind some
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Disaster and Crisis Coverage
Washington, DC: International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) (2009), 59 pp.
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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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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Citizen Journalism: Global Perspectives
New York: Peter Lang (2009), xii, 277 pp.
Global Crisis Reporting: Journalism in the Global Age
Maidenhead: Open University Press (2009), xiv, 199 pp.
"Global Crisis Reporting: Journalism in the Global Age sets out to better understand the media’s role in the circulation and communication of these global challenges to humanity as well as the conflicts and contentions that surround them. Concerned as we are with crises that transcend national bor
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Left in the Dark: The Unmet Need for Information in Humanitarian Responses
BBC World Service Trust (2008), 8 pp.
"When crisis or disaster strikes, people need help. They need, shelter, food, water and safety. They need these things rapidly and effectively. Modern humanitarian responses have become more effi cient and effective at providing these things. This policy briefing argues that people need information
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Communicating Disasters: An Asia Pacific Resource Book
Deep Insights
Bangkok; Nugegoda (LK): UNDP Regional Centre in Bangkok; Television for Education Asia-Pacific (TVE Asia-Pacific) (2007), x, 150 pp.
"Our 21 contributors -– most of them from Asia, and representing media, development or humanitarian sectors -- do not engage in mere theoretical discussions. In 19 chapters of this book, they draw on their rich and varied experience working in either preparing disaster resilient communities or res
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Covering the Tsunami disaster: Subsequent post-traumatic and depressive symptoms and associated social factors
Stress and Health, volume 24, issue 2 (2007), pp. 129-135
"Journalists frequently report on disasters. There is a growing evidence that they are subsequently at higher risk of post-traumatic and depressive symptoms. We conducted an internet-based study with 61 journalists who had covered the tsunami disaster in December 2004 from the affected region. The e
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Media's Challenge: Asian Tsunami and Beyond
Deep Insights
"The tsunami demonstrated that modern journalists can do more than just bring unfolding stories to the world. One of the biggest lessons of the tsunami that is unravelling is that the modern journalist can also help to heal communities, rebuild lives, keep families intact and raise funds. The media
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