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The State of Humanitarian Journalism (UEA, 2018)

November 12, 2018

This report presents some of the findings from a four-year global research project into the state of humanitarian journalism around the world. The authors asked:

  1. Which news organisations regularly report on humanitarian affairs? How are they funded, and what ethical problems or professional dilemmas does this create for journalists covering humanitarian affairs?
  2. When natural disasters and violent conflicts are reported, what kinds of journalistic coverage do they receive? Do news outlets differ from one another, and if so, how?
  3. How interested are news audiences in journalism about humanitarian affairs? How well does existing coverage serve their needs, and the needs of those involved in international aid? Which significant ‘gaps’ are there in news provision?
  4. What effects does news coverage have on public attitudes towards international aid?

Their analysis of news coverage reveals that only a small handful of international news outlets regularly report on humanitarian affairs, and identified a number of important gaps in humanitarian news coverage. Almost no articles looked at the specific problems faced by women and girls in relation to the conflicts in Yemen and South Sudan in 2017, for example.

Click here for the full report.

Filed Under: *MASS MEDIA ROUTES, *REGION: Global, Humanitarian, Media Development, Media Development Highlights, Publications (published in print and/or online), South Sudan, Yemen Tagged With: Conflict, Journalists, Natural disasters

Communicating with Disaster-affected Children: A Case Study from the 2015 Nepal Earthquake Response (Plan International Report 2016)

September 30, 2016

In disasters and conflicts around half of those affected are children. Despite this, in humanitarian settings children are rarely asked to share their views, provided with adequate information or consulted on what they need and prioritise in emergency preparedness, response and recovery. Plan International’s experience shows that engaging children in humanitarian responses helps them to respond better and in more relevant ways. Girls and boys who are well informed and have opportunities to communicate about decisions affecting their lives are able to make better contributions to safer communities in which their rights are respected.

This new report, released by Plan International and supported by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency*, looks at communication with disaster-affected children in the preparedness and response after the earthquake that hit Nepal on 25 April 2015.

The report findings show that humanitarian actors should invest in better and more effective ways to provide information to children, communicate with girls and boys of different ages and invest in children’s abilities to contribute to communication and information provision. This report is designed to inspire the reflection and action of all humanitarian actors to increase and improve the meaningful communication with children and young people in humanitarian work. The report also provides concrete recommendations on how this can be done.

Learn more about Plan International’s global work in emergencies

*Plan International is not responsible for content on external websites

Filed Under: Case Studies, Children, Humanitarian, Humanitarian Communications, Nepal, Publications (published in print and/or online) Tagged With: Natural disasters, Nepal Earthquake

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