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- Title
Los medios ante las catástrofes y crisis humanitarias: propuestas para una función social del periodismo.
- Authors
TOLEDANO, SAMUEL; ARDÈVOL-ABREU, ALBERTO
- Abstract
The media plays an important role in relation to public service. As a result, it faces a great need for information regulation, especially in relation to major events, such as disasters and humanitarian crises. The media, however, does appear committed to solving problems related to their coverage of highly sensitive topics and events. For this study, we analysed newsroom codes of conducts, stylebooks, and other tools of self-regulation, noting the absence of specific recommendations for properly following reporting etiquette in these types of scenarios. Furthermore, an additional study of documents from professional, academic and social organizations showed fragmented and unfocused recommendations for proper etiquette when reporting on sensitive situations. We used these fragments as a starting point to develop a compendium of proposals to help instill the social function of journalism when reporting on disasters and humanitarian crises.
- Subjects
MASS media; NEWSROOMS; CODES of ethics; JOURNALISM style manuals; SELF regulation; JOURNALISM &; society; REPORTERS &; reporting; DISASTERS in the press
- Publication
Comunicación y Sociedad, 2013, Vol 26, Issue 3, p190
- ISSN
0214-0039
- Publication type
Article