[huridocs-tech] Journalism, Media and the Challenge of Human Rights Reporting

From: "FEltom" <eltom@international-council.org>

The International Council on Human Rights Policy has just released a new 
report entitled Journalism, Media and the Challenge of Human Rights Reporting.

The report is an examination of how journalists conceive of and select 
human rights news, the impact of recent transformations in the media 
industry, including new technologies, and the constraints and obstacles to 
'good' reporting in the area of human rights. Calling for a fresh debate 
between journalists and human rights activists, it argues that, as human 
rights are integrated increasingly in policy frameworks, journalists have a 
professional duty to report on this subject with accuracy, fairness, 
consistency and precise knowledge of human rights.

This study is the outcome of a two-year research project that involved 
interviews with over seventy editors, journalists and broadcasters working 
in major international media centres, and extensive consultation with 
national and local media professionals in several countries.

http://www.ichrp.org/cgi-bin/show?what=project&id=106




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