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Reporting
Diversity-Tips on Interviewing People from other Groups
The
Media Diversity Institute’s “Reporting Diversity Guide” is a comprehensive
manual for journalists and trainers. In the guide author David Tuller provides
this list of tips for reporters wanting to cultivate sources amongst diverse communities.
(MDI, 2002
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Reporting
Diversity – Tips for Finding Sources
The
Media Diversity Institute’s “Reporting Diversity Guide” is a comprehensive
manual for journalists and trainers. In the guide author David Tuller provides
this list of tips for reporters wanting to cultivate sources amongst diverse communities.
(MDI, 2002
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Trafficking in Women - Manual for Journalists
The 100-page 'Trafficking in Women - Manual for Journalists Trafficking in Women - Manual for Journalists, is published by ASTRA, the Belgrade-based Anti Sex-Trafficking Action organization. It focuses on the situation in Serbia, giving an overview of sex trafficking in general before addressing the specific situation in Serbia, including media coverage, local laws and regulations, trafficking in children, and the experiences of ASTRA through its SOS Hotline. The manual also gives tips for journalists, including how to find sources and interview them. The manual is available in Serbian and English, languages, but not online. For hard copies contact ASTRA: Tel +381 11 3347 817, e-mail: astrasos@sezampro.yu |
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Guidelines for countering racial, ethnic and religious profiling
Guidelines for countering racial, ethnic and religious profiling in coverage of the war on terrorism, from the US Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ). The SPJ urges journalists to use language that is informative and not inflammatory; to portray Muslims, Arabs and Middle Eastern and South Asian Americans in a way that reflects the richness of their diverse experiences; and to seek truth through a variety of voices and perspectives. (SPJ) |
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Kit measures how inclusive and representative your coverage is
The Maynard Institute's 'Reality Checks' kit provides tools for measuring and discussing how accurately the news reflects the realities of America's multicultural society. The kit provides tools for an analysis of both your community's characteristics and your local newspaper content through the prism of the fault lines of race, gender, class, generation and geography. The purpose is to help journalists make news coverage more inclusive and representative of their communities.
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Diversity: A Checklist - 1
Reporting
on diversity means reflecting all members of the community in a fair and accurate
manner, and applying equal standards of scrutiny for all groups......
(This
Checklist was developed by journalists, journalism professors and diversity advisers
at a workshop at Carleton University in June, 1995)
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Reporting
Diversity: A Checklist - 2
(Society
of Professional Journalism - blended from a variety of sources, ranging from the
Seattle Times RAPP group to suggestions from Sandy Rivera at KHOU-TV, Houston;
Mervin Aubespin, the Louisville Courier-Journal; and Sherrie Mazingo, University
of Southern California, Los Angeles)
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Diversity: A Checklist - 3
(The
Seattle Times)
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Suicide: Guidelines for Journalists from Journalists
The PressWise
Trust, the National Union of Journalists (UK and Ireland) and the International
Federation of Journalists (IFJ) compiled these guidelines in consultation with
suicide prevention agencies. The aim of the guidelines is to assist print, broadcast
and on-line journalists to appreciate the risks associated with suicide coverage,
and suggest simple ways of avoiding unnecessary harm. (PressWise
Trust)
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Five W's of Journalism from a Diversity Perspective
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These 10 Questions to Make Good Ethical Decisions
(by
Bob Steele, The Poynter Institute)
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Victims of Traumatic Human Rights Abuses
(by
Jack Saul, Ph.D. Prishtina, Kosovo July 25 - Aug 8, 2001)
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People With Disabilities
Interview
tips for journalists from the US-based National Center on Disability and Journalism.
(National
Center on Disability & Journalism)
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Guidelines
for writing about disabled people
Language
guidelines for writing about disabled people from the Greater London Action on
Disability (GLAD) group. (GLAD)
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Percentage Tips for Scoring a Great Interview
| | • | Loosening
Lips: The Art of the Interview
(by Eric Nalde - San Jose Mercury
News)
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Can I Use Anonymous Sources?
Don
Fry, of the Poynter Institute for Media Studies in Florida, distributed this list
of questions that reporters should ask themselves when making decisions about
use of anonymous sources. They brought hot debate from journalists attending a
conference of Investigative Reporters and Editors......
(by Don Fry - Poynter Institute)
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Advice for Developing Sources |
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