[Commlist] New Book: Ethical Reporting of Sensitive Topics

New book

/Ethical Reporting of Sensitive Topics/ published by Routledge and 
edited by Dr. Ann Luce of Bournemouth University


/Ethical Reporting of Sensitive Topics/ explores the underlying 
complexities that journalists may face when covering difficult news 
stories. Reporting on issues such as suicide, sexual abuse, or migration 
is a skill that is often glossed over in a journalist’s education. By 
combining theory and practice, this collection will correct this 
oversight and give journalists the expertise and understanding to report 
on these subjects responsibly and ethically.

Contributors to this volume are an international group of 
journalists-turned- academics, who share their first-hand experiences 
and unique professional insight into best ethical journalistic practice 
for reporting on sensitive topics. Drawing from a range of case studies, 
contributors discuss the most appropriate approach to, for example, 
describing a shooter who has killed a group of schoolchildren or 
interviewing someone who has lost everything in a natural disaster. 
Readers are invited to consider factors which have the potential to 
influence the reporting of these sorts of topics, including bias, 
sensationalism, conflict of interest, grief, vulnerability, and 
ignorance of one’s own privilege.

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/Ethical Reporting of Sensitive Topics /aims to support /all 
/journalists, from students of journalism and individuals encountering a 
newsroom for the first time, to those veteran journalists or specialist 
journalists who seek to better their reporting skills.

You can order your copy here: 
https://www.routledge.com/Ethical-Reporting-of-Sensitive-Topics-1st-Edition/Luce/p/book/9780815348665

There is a 30% discount available when you enter the code ERST230 at 
checkout.


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