Pub Date : 2023-05-13DOI: 10.1177/10776958231167530
O. Ogunyemi, L. Price
Due to growing evidence of extensive trauma associated with high exposure to traumatizing events, including posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and maladaptive coping strategies among practicing journalists, the drive to prepare journalism students to cope with the emotional and psychological stress of reporting trauma and human suffering has grown significantly among scholars in recent years. This special issue proposes a new pathway to an educational agenda in response to this persistent work-related problem in journalism practice.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-28DOI: 10.17265/2160-6579/2023.02.005
None Geula Elimelekh
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Pub Date : 2023-04-28DOI: 10.17265/2160-6579/2023.02.001
None Yaron Katz
Innovation provides opportunities to all countries, as advancement in technology and globalization of economic markets encourage global competition and increase the role of governments in gaining a strategic competitive advantage while boosting economic growth and productivity. According to the OECD, innovation can make a difference in addressing developmental challenges and providing catalyst for countries to accelerate business processes and practices that improve public service efficiency. The public sector plays a significant role in modern economies and innovation is a necessary condition for improving government services to the public and creating a competitive economy. Israel is known as the “start-up nation”, but innovation policies and strategies relating to the public sector are less developed than those of business innovation due to lack of innovation culture, digital divide, and bureaucracy. The research examines innovation in the public sector in Israel compared to other OECD countries. It is argued that despite the enormous influence of high-tech and start-ups on the economy and gross of national product, the flourishing technology sector has not contributed to other sectors of the economy and the performance of the public service lags behind the private sector in terms of innovation and efficiency. The research concludes that implementing Israel’s success in business innovation into the public sector requires long-run strategic investments and public policies to increase the supply and quality of human capital and infrastructure. The goal should be to narrow digital divide with other developed countries and advance the technological capabilities and productivity of the public service.
{"title":"Innovation in the Public Sector in the Start-up Nation: Challenges of Technology, Bureaucracy, and Digital Divide","authors":"None Yaron Katz","doi":"10.17265/2160-6579/2023.02.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17265/2160-6579/2023.02.001","url":null,"abstract":"Innovation provides opportunities to all countries, as advancement in technology and globalization of economic markets encourage global competition and increase the role of governments in gaining a strategic competitive advantage while boosting economic growth and productivity. According to the OECD, innovation can make a difference in addressing developmental challenges and providing catalyst for countries to accelerate business processes and practices that improve public service efficiency. The public sector plays a significant role in modern economies and innovation is a necessary condition for improving government services to the public and creating a competitive economy. Israel is known as the “start-up nation”, but innovation policies and strategies relating to the public sector are less developed than those of business innovation due to lack of innovation culture, digital divide, and bureaucracy. The research examines innovation in the public sector in Israel compared to other OECD countries. It is argued that despite the enormous influence of high-tech and start-ups on the economy and gross of national product, the flourishing technology sector has not contributed to other sectors of the economy and the performance of the public service lags behind the private sector in terms of innovation and efficiency. The research concludes that implementing Israel’s success in business innovation into the public sector requires long-run strategic investments and public policies to increase the supply and quality of human capital and infrastructure. The goal should be to narrow digital divide with other developed countries and advance the technological capabilities and productivity of the public service.","PeriodicalId":37361,"journal":{"name":"Journalism and Mass Communication Educator","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136080172","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-04-28DOI: 10.17265/2160-6579/2023.02.003
None Manya Wandefu Stephen, None Odok Kizito
{"title":"Politics and the Science of COVID-19; Global Lessons","authors":"None Manya Wandefu Stephen, None Odok Kizito","doi":"10.17265/2160-6579/2023.02.003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17265/2160-6579/2023.02.003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37361,"journal":{"name":"Journalism and Mass Communication Educator","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136080173","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-04-28DOI: 10.17265/2160-6579/2023.02.004
None A. H. Cornellia, None Men Islami, None T. K. Priyambodo
{"title":"Museum’s Innovative Strategy During Pandemic","authors":"None A. H. Cornellia, None Men Islami, None T. K. Priyambodo","doi":"10.17265/2160-6579/2023.02.004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17265/2160-6579/2023.02.004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37361,"journal":{"name":"Journalism and Mass Communication Educator","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136080174","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-04-28DOI: 10.1177/10776958231170319
Todd R. Vogts
As political division and polarization continually increases in the United States, civic knowledge faces decline. Journalism education provides a potential remedy for these democracy-endangering harms by imparting valuable instruction regarding civics and the role of the media in society. However, with no standardization in the country, individual educators and school districts largely must develop their own curricula. Luckily, student media associations provide support and leadership to student media programs, which is articulated through their mission statements. Filling a gap in the existing research, this study conducted a thematic analysis and found discursive leadership within the mission statements of such associations.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-28DOI: 10.17265/2160-6579/2023.02.002
None TANG Hui, None XU Min
{"title":"Experimental Study of Primary School Students’ Independent Reading Based on the Network Teaching Platform","authors":"None TANG Hui, None XU Min","doi":"10.17265/2160-6579/2023.02.002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17265/2160-6579/2023.02.002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37361,"journal":{"name":"Journalism and Mass Communication Educator","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136080171","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-04-23DOI: 10.1177/10776958231161889
K. Shilpa, A. Kumari, M. Das, Tanushree Sharma, S. K. Biswal
The American Psychological Association defines trauma as “an emotional response to a terrible event. . . .” Trauma can be experienced as a response to either physical or emotionally disturbing circumstances. The Journalism and the Pandemic Project from the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) and the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University, in their global survey of journalists, have studied the impact of the pandemic on journalists across the globe. The COVID-19 pandemic has caused varying degrees of disruptions in the personal and professional lives of journalists. Traumatic experiences like covering traumatic events up close, COVID-induced health issues, job loss, pay cuts, and insecurity at the workplace have consumed journalists like never before. Overwhelming emotions like shock, helplessness, loneliness, depression, and anxiety are some of the reactions observed by mental health experts. Indian journalists, too, like their counterparts across the globe, have had to take on the challenges posed by this unprecedented crisis. This article intends to study the impact of the pandemic on Indian journalists both from physical and emotional perspectives. The objectives of the study include—(a) to analyze the journalists’ response to traumatic experiences during the pandemic, (b) to study the nature of trauma experienced by journalists during the pandemic, (c) to analyze how traumatic experiences affected the journalists, and (d) to explore and analyze how journalists managed to cope with the traumatic experiences. The study adopts social cognitive theory (SCT) as the framework. SCT comprises four goal realization processes: self-observation, self-evaluation, self-reaction, and self-efficacy. The four components are interrelated, and all influence motivation and goal attainment. Social cognition includes diverse processes linking the perception of social information with a behavioral response, including perception, attention, decision-making, memory, and emotion. The post-traumatic reactions include re-experiencing the traumatic event in flashbacks, recurrent nightmares, and intrusive memories, hypervigilant arousal, impaired concentration, depression, sleep disturbances, self-devaluation, avoidance of reminders of traumatic experiences, emotional detachment from others, and disengagement from aspects of life that provide meaning and self-fulfillment, which impair intrapersonal, interpersonal, and occupational functioning. The scope of the study covers the journalists’ responses to traumatic experiences specific to the pandemic. The study adopts a mixed research method with a thematic analysis of the qualitative data from interviews of journalists followed by a factor analysis of the quantitative data from the survey of the journalists.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-21DOI: 10.1177/10776958231167304
E. Newman, Ilissa Madrigal, Joseph E. Hight
Many journalism students cover stories about tragedy and violence (trauma). Yet few journalism schools offer trauma training despite growing agreement among educators that early journalists need to learn about the impact of reporting trauma on victims, the community, and the journalists’ themselves. This contrast is puzzling. This study aimed to identify what trauma-related topics are valued and which are taught. First, 156 Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) members completed a survey rating the importance and extent of course coverage of self-care, trauma-informed interviewing, trauma’s impact on the community, and best trauma community reporting practices. The commonly deemed highly valued topics include ethics of accuracy, sensitivity, respect for survivors, and privacy rights. Self-care was deemed important but often not covered. Qualitative interviews provided context on pedagogical techniques, experiences, and barriers to teaching trauma.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-11DOI: 10.1177/10776958231165103
Maja Šimunjak
The article outlines an evidence-informed approach for enhancing resilience, one of the key personal resources in labor, and explores the viability of this training for increasing journalists’ ability to manage everyday work-related stressors. The suggested pedagogy is in the form of a microintervention, informed by literature on psychological capital and primary research based on interviews with British journalists. The test of concept is based on 13 workshops carried out with journalism trainees and professionals. The postworkshop survey (n = 80) suggests that the proposed pedagogy has the potential to contribute to development of participants’ resilience as well as their wider psychological capital.
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