Title: Human rights journalism
Description: Drawing on case studies of the reporting of distant humanitarian interventions, especially in Eastern Europe and Africa by the mainstream Western media, €Ibrahim Shaw illuminates how journalists can create a more informed and empowered public sphere. He argues that journalists do not only hold the power to inform the public, but have the moral responsibility as duty bearers to educate and increase awareness of their rights and monitor, investigate and report all human rights violations. It is the first book to exclusively and critically explore the role of the media in the promotion and protection of human rights. Drawing on Kant's cosmopolitan principle of global justice, Shaw puts forward the case for human rights journalism as a more proactive approach in prioritising the deconstruction of indirect structural and cultural violence, and as the best way of preventing or minimising direct political violence.
Subjects: Human rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Human Rights, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, Press coverage, Journalism, Report writing, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, Human rights in mass media, Reporters and reporting, Authorship, Humanitarian intervention, POLITICAL SCIENCE, Political Freedom & Security, Civil Rights, Communication studies, Civil rights & citizenship, TV & society, Freedom of information & freedom of speech, Media Studies, Political aspects, Berichterstattung, Berufsethik, Humanitäre Intervention, Journalismus, Massenmedien, Menschenrecht