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- Title
News Values and the Ethical Dilemmas of Covering Violent Extremism.
- Authors
Abubakar, Abdullahi Tasiu
- Abstract
This article examines the relationship between news media and violent extremism to explore the ethical issues emanating from it. It draws on news value theory and journalism ethics literature and analyzes data from individual and group interviews with 41 journalists and newsroom observations to highlight the ethical challenges of covering the Boko Haram insurgency. Findings suggest that journalists face dilemmas in content selection, source relationship, framing stories, and dealing with victims; and that terror reporting impacts on their personal safety and professional sustainability. The elements of newsworthiness push the media toward excessive reporting of extremism but journalism ethics plays restraining roles.
- Subjects
JOURNALISTIC ethics; MASS media ethics; MASS media; RADICALISM &; the press; TERRORISM in mass media
- Publication
Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 2020, Vol 97, Issue 1, p278
- ISSN
1077-6990
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/1077699019847258