Covering the World in Despair: A Survey of German Crisis Reporters

Kramp, Leif; Weichert, Stephan

doi:10.1179/1752628013y.0000000008

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“…7 This local role is also defined primarily in terms of fixers/local reporters relationship with foreign correspondents, mostly Western and U.S. war journalists. 8 In countries like Pakistan, however, the situation is Understand Conflict-sensitive Reporting in the Troubled Pashtun Belt of Pakistan different. Growing insecurity has restricted foreign reporters from visiting the country's violence-hit bordering areas, raising the local journalists' importance and need.…”

Section: Conflicts and Wars: The Local Perspectivementioning

confidence: 99%

How Experience Becomes a Journalistic Asset? A Local Reporter’s Perspective to Understand Conflict-sensitive Reporting in the Troubled Pashtun Belt of Pakistan

Ashraf

2019

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In a previous paper (in Press), we adopted a critical theory approach to argue that the model of objective journalism, while laying emphasis on neutrality and detachment, disconnects local reporters, in conflict scenario, from feeling the pain of their own ethnic community. Therefore, the objectivity model was found too simple to help ethnic Pashtun journalists know occupational intricacies of conflict-sensitive reporting in Pakistan’s northwestern terror-hit areas, a site for the U.S-led so-called global war on terror. Using phenomenology as a method, I take this argument further and offer my shared journalistic experience as a resource to establish that objectivity obfuscates power politics involved in text production while promoting an ahistorical culture. This is done through objectifying the local reporter’s relationship with the troubled site of occurrence (field), a relationship in which a reporter is made insensitive to his own presence as an ethnic body standing at a highly militarized political site to get him focused more on looking at reality through the detached lens of neutral observer. Objectify here means that they look at reality not from the human perspective but usually prefer to project aspects of reality using objectivity as a measuring rod to access facts. Using the commercial framework of objective reporting might give a text (news story) an economically-desired impersonal form. But the urge for neutrality and impartiality neither can solve the crisis of reporting nor can control a journalist’s bias by discouraging his/her feelings, emotions, and subjectivity. In Pakistan, local reporters not only provide gory spectacles of a conflict which has, according to official figures, consumed over 50,000 lives and displaced millions predominantly in the Pashtun Belt; but the journalists also are getting increasingly vulnerable to violence. This paper argues that neutrality is a challenge in conflict reporting on one’s own community much the same way as attachment is a sin in objective model of commercial journalism.

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Section: Conflicts and Wars: The Local Perspectivementioning

confidence: 99%

How Experience Becomes a Journalistic Asset? A Local Reporter’s Perspective to Understand Conflict-sensitive Reporting in the Troubled Pashtun Belt of Pakistan

Ashraf

2019

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“…This is problematic because several recent studies have indicated that the actual role performance of journalists often differs from their role conceptions, as stated in surveys, interviews and codes of conduct (Mellado et al, 2017;Tandoc et al, 2013). Moreover, research has long recognised that journalists regularly face conflicting expectations from their surrounding environment and must find ways to negotiate between and combine multiple roles in their work (Hanitzsch & Vos, 2018;Hellmueller & Mellado, 2015;Kramp & Weichert, 2014;Rosten, 1937;Tandoc & Takahashi, 2014).…”

Section: A Social-interactionist View On Journalists' Role Conceptionsmentioning

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Watchdogs, Advocates and Adversaries: Journalists’ Relational Role Conceptions in Asylum Reporting

Ojala

Pöyhtäri

2018

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Journalistic role conceptions are usually understood as internalised professional conventions about the tasks reporters pursue in society. This study insists that more attention be put on the relational and context-dependent nature of journalistic role conceptions. Adopting a social-interactionist approach to journalistic roles, the study examines how Finnish journalists conceived of their professional roles when covering asylum issues during the so-called "refugee crisis" of 2015-2016. Based on an analysis of open-ended, semi-structured interviews with 24 journalists, we highlight how considerations of the political context and interactions with three key reference groups-officials, asylum seekers and anti-immigrant publicsshaped the journalists' conceptions of their tasks and duties. The article contributes to the study of journalistic role conceptions by illustrating how the conceptualisation of journalistic roles in relation to reference groups takes place in practice. It also sheds light on the tensions involved in journalistic balancing and negotiation between various available role conceptions, especially in the shifting societal and political contexts of a Europe marked by multiculturalism and the simultaneous rise of anti-immigrant movements.

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“…While the role and performance of journalism during wartime has been a vibrant area of study (e.g. Freedman and Thussu, 2003;Tumber and Palmer, 2004;Matheson and Allan, 2009;Zelizer and Allan, 2011), less attention has been paid to how war correspondents actually enact their roles and how these roles may be affected by changes in communication technologies, on the one hand, and modern information warfare, on the other (Kramp and Weichert, 2014;Tumber and Webster, 2006).…”

Section: Professional Role Enactments On Twittermentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Carpenter et al, 2015;Mellado, 2015), and digital and social media environments have been suggested as giving rise to an even wider plurality of journalistic roles (Fahy and Nisbet, 2011). At the same time, journalists must grapple with various tensions regarding their professional roles (Kramp and Weichert, 2014). These include the adoption of a detached versus an involved role; concentrating on disseminating facts versus taking an interpretive role requiring analysis and explanation; and their role as a conduit for a variety of societal voices versus being an advocate for a chosen cause (Hanitzsch 2007;Christians et al 2009;Tandoc et al, 2013).…”

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Professional role enactment amid information warfare: War correspondents tweeting on the Ukraine conflict

2016

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War correspondents work within a networked media environment characterised not only by an explosion of information but also a wide range of actors producing competing narratives and viewpoints. This study examines the ways in which war correspondents enact their professional roles when tweeting from within a conflict zone. The analysis sheds light on the conditions of modern information warfare in the context of reporting from within the Ukraine conflict. It also identifies the emerging social media practices of war correspondents and the different role categories that journalists are adopting on Twitter.

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Covering the World in Despair: A Survey of German Crisis Reporters

Cited by 5 publications

References 7 publications

How Experience Becomes a Journalistic Asset? A Local Reporter’s Perspective to Understand Conflict-sensitive Reporting in the Troubled Pashtun Belt of Pakistan

How Experience Becomes a Journalistic Asset? A Local Reporter’s Perspective to Understand Conflict-sensitive Reporting in the Troubled Pashtun Belt of Pakistan

Watchdogs, Advocates and Adversaries: Journalists’ Relational Role Conceptions in Asylum Reporting

Professional role enactment amid information warfare: War correspondents tweeting on the Ukraine conflict

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