ABSTRACT

As the second book in the Routledge Journalism Insights series, this edited collection explores the possibilities and challenges involved in contemporary reporting of peace and conflict.

Featuring 16 expert contributing authors, the collection maps the field of peace and conflict reporting in a digital world, in a context where the financial prospects of the news industry are challenged and professional authority, credibility and autonomy are decaying. The contributors, ranging from prominent scholars to the Head of Newsgathering at the BBC, discuss a diverse range of key case studies, including the role of Bellingcat in conflict journalism; war and peace journalism in Bangladesh; visual storytelling in conflict zones; and rampant cyber-misogyny confronting women journalists in Finland, India, the Philippines and South Africa. Bringing together theory and practice, the collection offers an in-depth examination of the changes taking place in the working practices of journalists as ongoing, strategic assaults against them increase.

Insights on Peace and Conflict Reporting is a powerful resource for students and academics in the fields of global journalism, foreign news reporting, conflict reporting, globalisation, media and international communication.

chapter |9 pages

Introduction

Reporting on processes of peace and conflict

chapter 2|18 pages

Obstacles for critical journalism in the security policy sector

Revisiting peace journalism

chapter 3|11 pages

Peace and conflict journalism

An African perspective

chapter 4|14 pages

Resolution, resistance, resilience

Covering the conflict in South Sudan

chapter 6|17 pages

How our rage is represented

Acts of resistance among women photographers of the Global South

chapter 7|15 pages

Citizen journalism

Is Bellingcat revolutionising conflict journalism?

chapter 8|18 pages

The new frontline

Women journalists at the intersection of converging digital age threats

chapter 9|13 pages

Creating capacity for peace

The power of news and civil norm building

chapter 10|13 pages

Covering conflict

Safety, sanity and responsibility