scholarly journals Deon and Telos: How Journalisms Are Evolving Their Ethical Approaches

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 484-498
Author(s):  
Jake Alexander Lynch
Keyword(s):  
Original Data ◽  
Cultural Value ◽  
Ethical Ideology ◽  
Investigative Journalism ◽  
White House ◽  
Participatory Journalism ◽  
Audience Responses ◽  
Peace Journalism ◽  
Process Feedback ◽  
Solutions Journalism

Survey evidence shows a deontological ethical ideology remains dominant in global journalism, underpinned by a cultural value of detachment. This article opens by considering the strain imposed on these precepts in US corporate media while covering the Trump White House—ultimately to breaking point with the defeated president’s campaign to overturn the result, attempting to co-opt news organisations in the process. Feedback loops of cause and effect have, in any case, been exposed in today’s extended media, making the involvement of journalism in stories—through influence on audience responses and source behaviours—impossible to overlook. At the same time, new journalisms are emerging and growing, which adhere instead to a teleological ethical ideology. They openly identify themselves with external goals, and appeal for funds from donors and supporters on that basis. The article then goes on to present original data from analysing statements of aims and purpose put out by 12 news organisations working in four of these new fields: Peace Journalism; Solutions Journalism; Engaged, or Participatory Journalism; and Investigative Journalism, respectively. These represent a growing edge in journalism, it is argued, since they are positioned to respond positively to the changed conditions brought about by political and technological forces, which were illustrated by the Trump crisis. The study points to the changes in institutional arrangements now needed, if the structural foundations for their survival and success are to be strengthened.

Audience Responses to Peace Journalism

2014 ◽  
Vol 17 (5) ◽  
pp. 628-646 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annabel McGoldrick ◽  
Jake Lynch
Keyword(s):  
Audience Responses ◽  
Peace Journalism

scholarly journals EDITORIAL: Captive to a political elite

2013 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 7
Author(s):  
David Robie ◽  
Shailendra Singh
Keyword(s):  
Social Cohesion ◽  
South Pacific ◽  
Political Elite ◽  
Independent Research ◽  
The South ◽  
Investigative Journalism ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Media ◽  
Peace Journalism ◽  
The University

This edition of Pacific Journalism Review is themed on the Media and Democracy in the South Pacific symposium held in Suva in September 2012. Hosted by the University of the South Pacific, the conference has provided most of the core papers for this issue, marking close to two decades of an independent research role in the region by this journal. The 2012 symposium followed two previous conferences held at AUT University in Auckland and USP in Suva in December 2010, covering topics ranging from investigative journalism and technology, peace journalism, democracy, social cohesion and various related themes.

Psychophysiological audience responses to war journalism and peace journalism

2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 201-217 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jake Lynch ◽  
Annabel McGoldrick ◽  
James Heathers
Keyword(s):  
Audience Responses ◽  
War Journalism ◽  
Peace Journalism

scholarly journals FRONTLINE: 'Blood Money': A NZ investigative journalism case study

2012 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 128 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Abplanalp
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Environmental Damage ◽  
Investigative Journalism ◽  
Public Response ◽  
The Public ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
History Of ◽  
Peace Journalism ◽  
Blood Money

Metro, the leading New Zealand glossy magazine reporting issues and society, published an investigative article ‘BLOOD MONEY’ probing the NZ Superannuation Fund (NZSF) investment in the controversial US-owned Freeport copper and gold mine at Grasberg as its lead feature in the December 2011 edition. Prior to this publication, the two Indonesian-ruled Melanesian provinces comprising West Papua on the island of New Guinea had remained largely ignored by New Zealand mainstream media for four decades. The mine has been at the centre of human rights and environmental abuse allegations for most of this period. In her investigation, the author sought to establish how the NZSF laid claim to being a ‘responsible investor’ while remaining involved in a mine with a long history of being implicated in alleged human rights violations and severe environmental damage. This exegesis considers the author’s reportage and methodology and how she included peace journalism concepts in the research and publication of ‘Blood Money’. It also analyses the public response.

scholarly journals Peace journalism: A paradigm shift in traditional media approach

2011 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-139 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rukhsana Aslam
Keyword(s):  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Traditional Approach ◽  
News Story ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Traditional Media ◽  
Investigative Journalism ◽  
Power Politics ◽  
Conflict Situations ◽  
Peace Journalism ◽  
Universal Standard

Power, politics and profit have been the key factors in determining the media’s traditional approach towards conflict. But in recent decades, the debate on ‘peace journalism’ as an approach to conflict has gained momentum and several scholars (Galtung, 1973; Lynch, 2005; Bell, 1998; Howard, 2003; Allan, 2007; Keeble, 2010) have argued in favour of the concept. However, many questions pertaining to the extent of effectiveness of peace journalism and its application to other forms of media remain unanswered. This article is an attempt to explore answers to these questions. It argues that there is a beginning of a paradigm shift in the traditional media’s approach to conflict situations. While peace journalism was been linked with conflict resolution and advocacy, there is now greater acceptance of it as an attitude that frames a news story. There are also examples to show that it is being applied to other media such as photojournalism, documentary making, film production, investigative journalism, community and specialised media. At the same time, advocates and practitioners of peace journalism face several challenges as there is no universal standard to deal with conflicts.

Developing an Intervention

2020 ◽  
pp. 75-104
Author(s):  
Andrea Wenzel
Keyword(s):  
Participatory Design ◽  
Place Identity ◽  
Political Polarization ◽  
Network Ties ◽  
Participatory Journalism ◽  
Local Media ◽  
Economically Marginalized ◽  
Communication Infrastructure Theory ◽  
Solutions Journalism ◽  
Western Kentucky

Chapter Three integrates previous research on solutions journalism and engaged journalism into a communication infrastructure theory framework, which looks at the health of local “storytelling network” ties between local media, organizations, and residents. This framework is used to assess storytelling networks, then design and pilot interventions to strengthen them. It focuses on Western Kentucky, an economically marginalized, but more rural region with a different demographic and political context to previous urban cases. The chapter explores how place identity and political polarization affect ties between residents, community groups, and local journalists. It then looks at a series of pilot interventions that grew out of a participatory design process—including an online and offline town hall, a participatory journalism program, and a series of listening sessions focused on informal rural gathering spaces. It explores how these interventions address key trustworthiness factors, and account for the needs and assets of local places.

Cognitive Shortcuts and Public Support for Intervention

2019 ◽  
Vol 64 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 261-289 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason Brownlee
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Bounded Rationality ◽  
Public Support ◽  
Original Data ◽  
Islamic State ◽  
Limited Information ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Policy Objective ◽  
White House ◽  
Nationally Representative

Scholars of public opinion on military intervention agree that survey respondents make judgments from limited information. Yet researchers still question whether ordinary Americans reflect elite attitudes or instead reach their own “pretty prudent” conclusions from the stated principal policy objective (PPO). This article adjudicates the debate while incorporating lessons from the study of bounded rationality. Evidence comes from an original data set of aggregate US public opinion, covering 1,080 nationally representative survey items about launching operations, across thirty-five countries, during 1981 to 2016. Tests show that PPO matters: pursuing “internal policy change” is less popular than restraining international aggression. However, language reflecting White House cues and one prominent cognitive shortcut (the “availability heuristic”) statistically and substantively outperforms PPO at predicting intervention support. The results indicate that when ordinary Americans are polled about using force against salient foes (Saddam Hussein, al-Qaeda, Islamic State in Iraq and Syria), elements of bounded rationality can overtake the prudence expressed toward less vivid problems.

Response to Matthew N. Green's review of Pushing the Agenda: Presidential Leadership in U.S. Lawmaking, 1953–2004

2012 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 1002-1003
Author(s):  
Matthew N. Beckmann
Keyword(s):  
Presidential Leadership ◽  
Original Data ◽  
Coalition Building ◽  
Roll Call ◽  
White House ◽  
Capitol Hill

In Pushing the Agenda, I sought to revisit the basic tenets of presidential coalition building on Capitol Hill. My hope was that tracing the White House's lobbying strategies would not only reveal how they are intended to work but also offer a better blueprint for assessing if they do. To those ends, I theorized that the White House has two basic lobbying strategies—an early game (agenda-centered) strategy aimed at shaping the legislative alternatives considered and an endgame (vote-centered) strategy aimed at determining which prevailed. Tests with a diverse assortment of original data—on the practice of lobbying, the results of key roll-call votes, and the passage of new laws—all corroborated a key point: presidential coalition building operates differently than scholars have thought, with effects greater than previously realized.

Rotational Characteristics of the Green Solar Corona: 1947-1991

1994 ◽  
Vol 144 ◽  
pp. 139-141 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Rybák ◽  
V. Rušin ◽  
M. Rybanský
Keyword(s):  
Solar Corona ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Rotation Period ◽  
Original Data ◽  
Coronal Emission ◽  
Time Intervals ◽  
Data Set ◽  
The World ◽  
Coronal Emission Line ◽  
Homogeneous Data

AbstractFe XIV 530.3 nm coronal emission line observations have been used for the estimation of the green solar corona rotation. A homogeneous data set, created from measurements of the world-wide coronagraphic network, has been examined with a help of correlation analysis to reveal the averaged synodic rotation period as a function of latitude and time over the epoch from 1947 to 1991.The values of the synodic rotation period obtained for this epoch for the whole range of latitudes and a latitude band ±30° are 27.52±0.12 days and 26.95±0.21 days, resp. A differential rotation of green solar corona, with local period maxima around ±60° and minimum of the rotation period at the equator, was confirmed. No clear cyclic variation of the rotation has been found for examinated epoch but some monotonic trends for some time intervals are presented.A detailed investigation of the original data and their correlation functions has shown that an existence of sufficiently reliable tracers is not evident for the whole set of examinated data. This should be taken into account in future more precise estimations of the green corona rotation period.

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