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‘The nearest thing to a journalism think-tank’ - the Observer
Since 2001, Reporting the World has brought senior professional journalists together with experts and analysts from universities and NGOs, for discussions about reporting conflict.
What is unusual is the focus of these discussions - the news itself, and issues of representation and responsibility for editors and reporters.
Participants include:
- Editors of the Guardian, Financial Times, al Quds al Araby and New African magazine
- Heads of News at the BBC and CNN, as well as many prominent front-line reporters
- Professors in Conflict and Peace Studies, Sociology, Media and Communications
- On-the-ground peace workers from the Middle East, South-east Europe, Africa and Indonesia
A unique resource
This site contains transcripts of discussions on these conflicts as well as the ‘War on Terrorism’ and the invasion of Iraq
- before and after. Together, they make up a unique resource for researchers and students.
Reporting the World also takes the form of a series of occasional papers, articles and booklets, all of which are available on this site.
They include the Reporting the World book, with its innovative four-point ethical checklist for covering conflicts.
Peace Journalism
Many of the ideas and perspectives raised in Reporting the World discussions are drawn from the concept of Peace Journalism, which has its own pages here. Explained and explored in the book, Peace Journalism
- theory and practice, by Reporting the World directors Jake Lynch and Annabel McGoldrick, published in 2005 by Hawthorn Press.
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A stimulating analysis of issues surrounding the conflict in Darfur, by Mahmood Mamdani, Herbert Lehman Professor of Government and Director, Institute of African Studies, at University of Columbia, New York
On Pambazuka News
'What Lynch and McGoldrick do is add context to their reports. They explain, but they do not condone, why things happen the way they do, which is better than just regurgitating information about who did what, where and when. They think journalists should cover the whole spectrum of Israeli and Palestinian society, rather than just reporting the extremes'.
Electronic Intifada review of News from the Holy Land
'This week, all is quiet as only Palestinians have been killed'.
Arab Media Watch study of BBC Middle East coverage
An urgent and indisputable case for change - TV Middle East coverage is misleading and confusing the audience
Greg Philo's Guardian analysis
'The report highlights the links that should be made, but generally are not, between migration and issues such as the arms trade, globalisation, environmental disaster and poverty. These issues can only be understood once we view them in the round'
The Refugee Council on a new report exposing media myths
'Iraq has sucked out all the oxygen and distorted the international agenda' - UN Secretary General Kofi Annan
Ten important stories under-reported in international news
'Too many journalists acted as virtual stenographers' for the authorities - impressively researched study of Iraq coverage in US + UK media
- By University of Maryland
Kosovo - 'Honest reporting today would seem to be impossible without admitting, at least implicitly, that the earlier image was deceptive, built on propaganda, including lies and omissions, and on policy-makers' opportunist ignorance'.
Time for some critical reflection?
'The BBC's story was true; the Government's denials were untrue. The BBC did not behave perfectly, but it acted in the public interest'
The NUJ on Andrew Gilligan's story
Recent violence in Kosovo shows how most media got the story wrong, in several crucial respects, in 1998 and 1999
On the Media Channel
Beyond the stereotypes in the Middle East - explaining, not excusing violence
by Jake Lynch for Today - scroll down to 0720
Coverage of asylum seekers in UK media - a cumulative pattern of distortion and its influence on policy
The Feedback Loop in action
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Gush Shalom dispels the myths
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