Pub Date : 2024-08-14DOI: 10.1177/14648849241274105
Anna M Ross, Kara Dickson, Amy J Morgan, Elizabeth Paton, Gayle McNaught, Nicola J Reavley
Improvements in the quality of news portrayals of mental illness and suicide can be attributed to the introduction of media guidelines, particularly the Mindframe guidelines in Australia. However, based on reports about problematic media content, there remains scope for improvement. This study sought to further investigate the experiences of Australian news media professionals in reporting on mental illness and suicide, including their experiences of using the Mindframe guidelines and developing news stories about people with lived experience. We conducted semi-structured interviews with 12 media professionals, including junior reporters, senior reporters, and news editors. Media professionals had an average of 10.1 years’ (SD = 9.4) experience and represented a range of work experiences. Three key themes were generated from participant responses about their experiences reporting on mental illness and suicide: 1. Awareness of responsible reporting guidelines and how to proactively increase this; 2. Newsroom processes, values and subjectivity in applying guidelines; and 3. The importance and challenge in sharing lived experience stories, and improving support for covering these stories. Further resources and education are needed across newsrooms and universities to increase awareness and use of the Mindframe guidelines, and ultimately improve the quality of Australian media portrayals of mental illness and suicide. Editors and managers should be targeted with this training to best influence organisational change. Media professionals require additional preparation and support to develop lived experience stories, particularly in working with people bereaved by suicide to ensure this is a safe engagement for both parties.
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Pub Date : 2024-08-14DOI: 10.1177/14648849241272270
Belle de Jong, Johana Kotišová
The increased scale of cross-border journalistic investigations brings about severe challenges: online harassment, physical violence, legal threats, but also emotional challenges and mental stress that can lead to burnout. The latter has never been the focus of studies on cross-border investigative journalistic collaborations. This paper seeks to fill in this gap and contribute to the understanding of how the cross-border aspects of investigative journalists’ work shape their mental well-being. Based on eighteen semi-structured interviews conducted with investigative journalists across Europe in the first half of 2023, this study addresses the following research questions: What are the specific challenges, threats, and risks encountered by investigative journalists working on cross-border collaborations? How do these challenges and risks affect investigative journalists’ mental well-being? What coping mechanisms do investigative journalists employ? Our findings show that cross-border investigative journalists experience a systemic neglect of mental well-being in the profession. Moreover, journalists face country-specific challenges, stemming from varying legal constraints and disparities in institutional support and protection across countries. The lack of safety measures that protect journalists beyond physical safety, multitasking, and the lack of concern for cross-border investigative journalists’ mental well-being can prove particularly challenging for freelancers. At the same time, the cross-border collaborations are depicted as a source of mutual assistance, protection, and a sense of community among international journalists.
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Pub Date : 2024-08-14DOI: 10.1177/14648849241273664
Leonie Wunderlich, Sascha Hölig, Meinolf Ellers
Traditionally, researchers have played only a limited role as experts or qualified sources for journalists—and journalists were the subject of investigation for researchers rather than cooperation partners. The rapid pace of transformation processes in media use poses various challenges for media practitioners today, which is why they increasingly rely on the support of media researchers and their valuable insights into consumer attitudes and behaviour. However, the cooperation between scientific institutions and media practitioners is marked by many challenges and apart from individual temporary projects, lasting collaborations have not yet been established. This paper presents a long-term transfer initiative that aims to promote news use and news literacy among young people in close cooperation between a scientific institution and a wide range of private and public service media. Using this initiative as an example, we analyse the opportunities, challenges, and productive dynamics that result from this project. Based on our experience, we propose four main pieces of advice for how researchers can enhance long-term collaboration with newsrooms.
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Pub Date : 2024-08-13DOI: 10.1177/14648849241266719
Regula Hänggli Fricker, Daniel Beck
This paper analyses reporting on the topic of Islam in Switzerland from 2018 until the end of 2020. A quantitative content analysis of 715 articles from 10 newspapers in German and French was conducted. Research into framing, agenda building, and attention theory serve as a theoretical basis. We show that “event-driven” and “institutionally driven” debates differ. They can be characterised on two dimensions: range of views (in terms of speakers, issues, issues in different language regions), and communication style (presentation of the position of Muslims and adopted journalistic role performance). In other words, this article shows that the arena is a key driving factor in the shape of a debate. This distinction of debate types provides a deeper understanding of Muslim actors as speakers, and of the role of market pressures in forms of infotainment journalism, and enriches theoretical understanding while providing empirical evidence. Islam as a topic is well suited for analysing public debates because the topic has been present in media coverage for many years, both in connection with political decision making processes (e.g. status of the religious community, integration of migrants, discussion about the ban on veiling) and in connection with current events in which contrasts between the Islamic and Western worlds are thematised (e.g. Islamic fundamentalism, religiously motivated acts of terrorism).
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Pub Date : 2024-08-12DOI: 10.1177/14648849241273581
Tawseef Majeed, Ali M Abushbak, Monisa Qadri, Atul Sinha
This article explores how Palestinian and Kashmiri civilians engage with the everyday reality of war. The focus is on understanding how citizens temporarily adopt the roles of war correspondents, contributing to the broader conflict narrative. Employing an inductive approach, the study integrates ethnography, phenomenology, and reflexive thematic analysis (RTA) to gain insights into how citizen journalists shape war narratives. Analysing the interview data through RTA reveals six key themes: “Emerging citizen journalism practices,” “Community Consciousness,” “Challenges in media perception,” “Self-expression and Social cohesion,” Responding to Authoritarian Falsehoods”, “Teen journalism”, and “Self-protection and safety”. The findings suggest that the citizen journalism practices in Palestine and Kashmir strategically report the war narratives, representing a progressive journalism practice. The results underline that citizen journalism practices in these regions purposefully present war narratives and represent a form of constructive journalism, which responds to authoritarian regimes’ extensive control over mainstream media and facilitates reconciliation and peace. Such citizen journalism practices act as an equipoise to data imbalances in information architecture for the consumers. The research underscores how conflict citizen journalism embodies activist and collaborative models with robust potential for replication in other conflict-ridden areas.
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Pub Date : 2024-08-12DOI: 10.1177/14648849241269271
Indra Prawira, Mastura Mahamed
Citizen journalism was perceived to be a beacon of hope for democracy throughout countries in Southeast Asia. Nonetheless, recnt developments indicate citizen journalism in the region is being challenged. This research exploits Pierre Bourdieu’s field theory to understand contemporary Southeast Asian citizen journalism. The data was collected by way of semi-structured interviews conducted with thirty people participating in citizen journalism from Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines. The findings demonstrate prevalent economic, political, and cultural pressures in these countries, with political factors exerting the most pressure on the rise of citizen journalism. All three nations experience political pressure via regulations, with the Philippines being subjected to the most pressure due to extrajudicial killings and the intimidation of journalists. Owing to financial constraints, citizen journalism acts as a venue for mainstream media to obtain free content from citizen journalists. Citizen journalists in Indonesia earn significant incomes, although professional journalists covertly adopt their posts. Cultural pressure capital is exhibited when journalists apply ethical journalism to citizen journalists by means of training. Moreover, in the Philippines, citizen journalism is commonly positioned by government-supporting politicians to disinform. This study delivers an extensive and comparative overview, strengthening the case to update field theory.
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Pub Date : 2024-08-12DOI: 10.1177/14648849241274104
Maartje van der Woude, Tomás Dodds, Guillén Torres
With the exploding availability of online data, digital open-source investigations (OSINV) methods have become increasingly popular in journalism. However, practitioners face novel challenges related to the tension between journalism’s transparency ideals and its duty to safeguard the privacy and security of data subjects. This article explores this tension by drawing on data from eight in-depth interviews with professional open-source investigative journalists in the Netherlands. The findings of our study reveal that OSINV investigators rely heavily on personal assessments and ongoing dialogues with colleagues to make privacy-related editorial choices, as rules and guidelines have only recently emerged. This research provides valuable insights into the intricacies of OSINV journalism, uncovering the delicate balance between journalistic transparency and privacy/security considerations.
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Pub Date : 2024-08-06DOI: 10.1177/14648849241272163
Syed Mubashar Hussain Shah, Babar Hussain Shah
This research article presents an examination of the findings and recommendations drawn from a series of focus group discussions (FGDs) with senior journalists. The main aim was to develop a strategy to safeguard the skills and well-being of journalists in the face of potential future pandemics or crises. The FGDs were attended by experienced journalists whose focus was on rigorous reporting during the COVID-19 pandemic. They represented press clubs from across Pakistan, including Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) and Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK). In these discussions, participants presented the challenges they faced during the COVID-19 pandemic and the strategies they used to overcome these hurdles. In addition, the deliberations resulted in recommendations aimed at creating a safe environment for journalists to work, especially in crises. Using the analytical capabilities of the NVivo software, a thematic analysis was conducted to decipher the core themes of the FGDs. These themes have now been summarized in a set of consolidated recommendations that form the cornerstone of this research project. The recommendations advocate for improvements that include strengthening safety measures, prioritizing mental health and well-being, ensuring unimpeded access to important information, increasing legal protections, cultivating capacity-building opportunities, strengthening networks and collaborations, and introducing specialized training in health reporting. By implementing these recommendations, a framework can be created that strengthens journalists’ resilience in the face of crises. This article sees these findings not only as a blueprint for journalistic safety but also as evidence of the strength and adaptability of the journalistic community in the face of unprecedented challenges.
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Pub Date : 2024-08-05DOI: 10.1177/14648849241272147
Eisa Al Nashmi
Seeking to broaden collective memory research beyond major nations and high-profile events (e.g., the Cold War and September 11), this study explores how Kuwaiti newspapers memorialized Saddam Hussein’s August 2, 1990, invasion of Kuwait. By tracing the evolution of commemorative narratives over three decades and observing how they resonate with the state’s political context, the role of the Kuwaiti press in shaping collective memory is shown. Additionally, given the shifts in Kuwait’s foreign policy—from initial animosity toward Iraq to a strategic partnership—prompted by leadership changes and the 2003 US–Iraq War, this study examines how commemorations reflected and solidified Kuwait’s evolving identity. In this context, the study evaluates the role of journalists as active participants in the state’s continuous pursuit of ontological security, which focuses on establishing a stable and recognized national identity alongside physical security.
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Pub Date : 2024-08-05DOI: 10.1177/14648849241272219
Lambrini Papadopoulou, Ioannis Angelou, Anastasia Katsaounidou
Drawing on qualitative analysis using semi-structured interviews, this study examines the enduring impact of the prolonged cycle of global crises on South European journalists’ perceptions about their profession and approaches to their work. The findings reveal a complex interplay of emotions among journalists, ranging from a love-hate dynamic towards their profession to a deep-seated disappointment with its ability to enact positive societal change. The repeated exposure to trauma has led them to a loss of faith in journalism’s potential to serve the public good, fostering a sense of powerlessness and futility among practitioners. Moreover, this study sheds light on shifts in journalistic practice. Journalists describe how they infuse their work with personal emotions as a means of coping with the intensity of the stories they cover. They elaborate on the deteriorating working conditions brought about after years of crises but also highlight the emotional toll of permacrisis as an important factor that leads them to choose ‘lighter’ beats or exit the profession entirely. This study is unique in documenting permacrisis’ impact on journalists in Southern Europe, emphasizing the need for a nuanced understanding of their experiences.
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