Human rights journalism : advances in reporting distant humanitarian interventions / Ibrahim Seaga Shaw.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shaw, Ibrahim Seaga, 1962-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human rights in mass media.

Human rights--Press coverage.

Human rights.

Journalism--Authorship.

Journalism.

Reporters and reporting.

Report writing.

Physical Description:

xvi, 281 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

Summary:

This is the first book to exclusively and critically explore the role of the media in the promotion and protection of human rights. Drawing on case studies concerning the reporting of distant humanitarian interventions, especially in Eastern Europe and Africa by the mainstream Western media, Ibrahim Shaw illuminates how journalists can create a more informed and empowered public sphere. He argues that journalists do not only hold the power to inform the public, but have the moral responsibility as duty bearers to educate and increase awareness of their rights and monitor, investigate and report all human rights violations. Using Kant's cosmopolitan principle of global justice, Shaw puts forward the case for human rights journalism as a more proactive approach in prioritising the deconstruction of indirect structural and cultural violence, and as the best way of preventing or minimising direct political violence. Book jacket.

Contents:

Foreword by Stuart Allan

Introduction : background and scope of human rights journalism

Human rights journalism : a conceptual framework

Critical comparative analyses of human rights journalism and peace journalism, global journalism and human rights reporting

Public, citizen and peace journalisms : towards the more radical human rights journalism strand

The dynamics and challenges of reporting humanitarian interventions

The 'us only' and 'us+them' frames in reporting the Sierra Leone War : implications for human rights journalism

'Operation Restore Hope' in Somalia and genocide in Rwanda

Politics of humanitarian intervention and human wrongs journalism : the case of Kosovo vs Sierra Leone

The Politics of development and global poverty eradication

The 2007 EU-Africa Lisbon Summit and 'the Global Partnership for Africa'

The reporting of asylum seekers and refugees in the UK

Conclusion : a case for human rights journalism and future directions

Afterword by Jake Lynch.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780230321427

0230321429

OCLC:

767864259

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