scholarly journals Pacific Journalism Monographs No 2: Coups, conflicts and human rights

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Robie
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
News Media ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Media Ethics ◽  
The Press ◽  
Media Credibility ◽  
Critical Media ◽  
The Media ◽  
Peace Journalism ◽  
Corporate Integrity

At the heart of a global crisis over news media credibility and trust is Britain’s so-called Hackgate scandal involving the widespread allegations of phone-hacking and corruption against the now defunct Rupert Murdoch tabloid newspaper News Of The World. Major inquiries on media ethics, professionalism and accountability have been examining the state of the press in New Zealand, Britain and Australia. The Murdoch media empire has stretched into the South Pacific with the sale of one major title being forced by political pressure. The role of news media in global South nations and the declining credibility of some sectors of the developed world’s Fourth Estate also pose challenges for the future of democracy. Truth, censorship, ethics and corporate integrity are increasingly critical media issues in the digital age for a region faced with coups, conflicts and human rights violations, such as in Fiji and West Papua. In this monograph, Professor David Robie reflects on the challenges in the context of the political economy of the media and journalism education in the Asia-Pacific region. He also engages with emerging disciplines such as deliberative journalism, peace journalism, human rights journalism, and revisits notions of critical development journalism and citizen journalism.

How to Tell the Truth without Outraging the Press?

MedienJournal ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 30 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 37
Author(s):  
Li Xiguang
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Public Affairs ◽  
Chinese Government ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
The Public ◽  
News Stories ◽  
The Press ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Government ◽  
Chinese News Media

The commercialization of meclia in China has cultivated a new journalism business model characterized with scandalization, sensationalization, exaggeration, oversimplification, highly opinionated news stories, one-sidedly reporting, fabrication and hate reporting, which have clone more harm than good to the public affairs. Today the Chinese journalists are more prey to the manipu/ation of the emotions of the audiences than being a faithful messenger for the public. Une/er such a media environment, in case of news events, particularly, during crisis, it is not the media being scared by the government. but the media itself is scaring the government into silence. The Chinese news media have grown so negative and so cynica/ that it has produced growing popular clistrust of the government and the government officials. Entering a freer but fearful commercially mediated society, the Chinese government is totally tmprepared in engaging the Chinese press effectively and has lost its ability for setting public agenda and shaping public opinions. 

scholarly journals The Struggle for Control: How do Norwegian TV-Celebrities Deal With Critical Media Exposure?

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 68
Author(s):  
Fanny Duckert ◽  
Kim Edgar Karlsen
Keyword(s):  
Impression Management ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Media Exposure ◽  
Direct Effects ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Defensive Strategies ◽  
Strong Focus ◽  
The Press ◽  
Critical Media ◽  
The Media

Ten Norwegian TV-hosts, all nation-wide celebrities, were interviewed about their experiences with critical media exposure. How did they perceive their relationship with the press?  What were the main sources of stress? How did they cope? All expressed a strong focus on impression management and self-presentation. The majority described an independent and often playful interaction with the press, in order to keep control over their programs and their privacy.All had experienced negative media exposure. Sources of stress were one-sided presentations, evil informers, personal attacks, and harming their family. They experienced both direct effects by the media coverage, and indirect effects through interaction with other people.The majority used problem-focused coping strategies, actively influencing the media coverage; emotion-focused strategies, regulating their thoughts and feelings; and meaning-focused strategies, allowing reflection. Proactive self-presentation work helped maintain and protect their identities.Two of the participants reported using more defensive strategies, and had suffered more intensely.

Beyond the Phantom Public

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony M. Nadler
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Media Studies ◽  
News Media ◽  
Interactive Media ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Media System ◽  
Critical Media ◽  
The Media ◽  
To Come ◽  
Point To Point

This concluding chapter discusses the intellectual resources of critical media studies and applies them to debates about the future of news. The changes taking place in news media concern not only content but the very modes through which people engage the media in everyday life, as well as the ways media connect individuals to larger communities. Although interactive media is not inherently destined to level hierarchies of power, it is certainly possible that societal appropriations of new media technologies could mean a reworking of the infrastructure that regulates which ideas and visions circulate from point to point in the media system. The issue lies in how crucial decisions at this critical juncture will be made and what course they will set for the years to come.

scholarly journals The suitcase, the samurai sword and the Pumpkin: Asian crime and NZ news media treatment

2008 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 183-204
Author(s):  
Sarah Baker ◽  
Jeanie Benson
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
News Media ◽  
Chinese Student ◽  
High Profile ◽  
First Case ◽  
Current Affairs ◽  
The Press ◽  
The Media ◽  
Young Daughter

In 2005 and 2007, two high profile crimes were reported in the New Zealand media. The first case invovled the murder of a young Chinese student, Wan Biao, whose dismembered body was discovered in a suitcase. The second case involved domestic violence in which a Chinese man murdered his wife and fled the scene with their young daughter— who the press later dubbed 'Pumpkin' when she was found abandoned in Melbourne, Australia. The authors discuss how news and current affairs programmes decontextualise 'Asian' stories to portray a clear divide between the 'New zealand' public and the separate 'Asian other'. Asians are portrayed as a homogenous group and the media fails to distinguish between Asians as victims of crimes as a separate category to Asians as perpetrators of crimes. This may have consequences for the New Zealand Asian communities and the wider New Zealand society as a whole. 

Coverage of Women’s Issues by Urdu and English Press: A Comparative Analysis

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (1and2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dr. G. K. Sahu ◽  
Shah Alam
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Belief Systems ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Women's Issues ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Press ◽  
The Media ◽  
Contemporary Media

We are living in a mediated world where every aspect of human life is getting affected by images of media. Consciously or unconsciously, knowingly or unknowingly our attitudes, values and belief systems are getting increasingly influenced by media. Some media critics expressed serious concern over the influence of the media in our everyday life. In the contemporary media saturated world, the agenda of the media becoming the public agenda. It is in this context, the news media play an important role in shaping public opinion and creating consciousness on different issues. Keeping in view of the importance of the news media in the contemporary society, the paper makes an attempt to ascertain the agenda setting role of the press towards women’s issues. For the purpose two mainstream dailies- one from the English and the other from the Urdu language newspapers purposively taken and their contents related to women’s issues have been subjected to detailed analysis.

scholarly journals Abrogation of Article 370 and the Media Framing of Kashmir Conflict: A Pursuit for Re-conciliatory Approach

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 133-146
Author(s):  
Ayesha Siddiqua ◽  
Khalid Sultan ◽  
Atif Ashraf ◽  
Ghulam Shabir
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Special Form ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Media Framing ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Human Rights Violations ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
The Media ◽  
Peace Journalism

Objective: The study at hand attempts to analyze the media framing of J&K conflict in the context of abrogation of Article 370 along with comprehending the extent to which ideals of peace journalism can be translated into journalistic practices. Methodology: Quantitative analysis of the news items published in Dawn and The Nation (Pakistani media); Times of India and The Hindu (Indian media) indicated that the media framing of Kashmir conflict by the all four selected English dailies from India and Pakistan was heavily dominated by war framing. Findings: Findings of the qualitative interviews conducted from the Indian and Pakistani journalists indicated that the ideals of peace journalism can be translated in to journalistic practices by not justifying human rights violations and by focusing on more in-depth coverage of less visible effects of conflict.  A search for common grounds among key stake holders and refraining from becoming part of propaganda were among other key factors which can play a vital role in practicing peace journalism. Implications: Peace Journalism can be understood as a special form of responsible journalism as it has the potential to contribute in the peace process.

scholarly journals Credibility and the Media as a Political Institution

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (s1) ◽  
pp. 67-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Blach-Ørsten ◽  
Rasmus Burkal
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
Survival Strategy ◽  
Institutional Level ◽  
News Stories ◽  
Lower Figure ◽  
Media Credibility ◽  
The Media ◽  
Current Article ◽  
Increased Pressure

AbstractCredibility is frequently represented as both an ideal goal for journalism as a profession and as an integral part of the news industry’s survival strategy. Yet there is no widely accepted operationalization of the concept of credibility. In the current article, we present the results of a study of credibility in Danish news media. Credibility is defined at an institutional level by two dimensions: A) the accuracy and reliability of the news stories featured in leading Danish news media, and B) journalists’ knowledge and understanding of the Danish code of press ethics. The results show that sources only find objective errors in 14.1% of the news stories, which is a lower figure than most other studies report. The results also show that Danish journalists find bad press ethics to be an increasing problem and attribute this problem to increased pressure in the newsroom.

scholarly journals Editorial Treatment of Burhan Wani Killing: A Comparative Analysis of Pakistan and India Press

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-20
Author(s):  
Adnan Munawar ◽  
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
National Interests ◽  
Security Forces ◽  
Quantitative Content ◽  
The Media ◽  
Peace Journalism ◽  
The Times ◽  
Freedom Movement ◽  
Hostile Attitude

This study examines coverage patterns of the killing of Burhan Muzaffar Wani in two leading English dailies of Pakistan and India from July 2016 to December 2016. The killing of Wani, a commander of Hizbul Mujahideen, in an encounter by the Indian security forces on July 8, 2016, led to large-scale protests in the Indian-held Kashmir and military confrontations over the line of control between the two nuclear-armed South Asian neighbors and claims of surgical strikes against Pakistan by India. The theoretical framework for this research was determined by framing theory, while the sample was selected by applying census sampling. The findings, based on a quantitative content analysis of selected editorials of The Times of India and The News International, show that the two newspapers did not present the ground reality as it is, but reconstructed it according to their agendas and represented it by framing events. The patriotic and hostile attitude of the media of both countries results in the obstruction of peace process and endorses a wave of tension, which often leads to heightened tension and war hysteria between the two countries. Consistent with the existing scholarship on peace journalism, the findings of this study also show how the news media surrender impartiality and cover the events in view of their country’s national interests and foreign policy. Keywords: Framing, conflict communication, Kashmir dispute, Burhan Wani, Kashmir freedom movement, crisis communication.

scholarly journals Journalism under duress in Asia-Pacific: A decade of resistance

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 12-32
Author(s):  
David Robie
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Media Freedom ◽  
West Papua ◽  
Critical Media ◽  
Culture Of Impunity

Auckland University of Technology’s Pacific Media Centre marked its tenth anniversary with a wide-ranging public seminar discussing two of the region’s most critical media freedom crises. The ‘Journalism Under Duress in Asia-Pacific’ seminar in November 2017 examined media freedom and human rights in the Philippines and in Indonesia’s Papua region, generally known as West Papua. The introduction to the PMC seminar, later presented at a Reporters Without Borders summit for Asia-Pacific freedom advocates and activist journalists in Paris in July 2018 examined the culture of impunity over crimes against journalists and journalism safety as a major factor undermining media freedom in the region.

scholarly journals Journalist As Professional Versus Employee A Case Of Koran SINDO In Censuring News On Trump’s Travel-Ban Policy

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tjipta Lesmana
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Media Theory ◽  
Early Years ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Print News ◽  
The Press ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Media ◽  
Specific Reason

Freedom of the press worldwide faces serious threat from owners of the media. Theoretically, journalist is independent and able to write whatever he or she wants to print. News is anything that fits to print, the jargon outcried in early years of Libertarian Media Theory. It is the journalist who has the  power to give criteria for “fitting” to print. Now the jargon has changed drastically: “He who pays the piper calls the tune’’. Newsroom  is nowaday not beyond owner’s interventionOwners run news media for specific reason. If they decide that a commentary or a news report goes against their beliefs or their interests or if they consider them biased, they certainly will want to intervene.The case of daily Koran SINDO is interesting to be investigated. While most media in the world, including those in Indonesia, heavily exposed President Donald Trump’s controversial policy in banning people from 6 midle-east and African countries from entering the US, daily Koran SINDO totally blocked the news. Not any single news criticising Trump’s policy is printed at the paper owned by Hary Tanoesudibjo. How the daily “plays the game” the author makes a simple research using qualitative content analysis.

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