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Can I read A Better Way to Save Lives on EtoBox?
A Better Way to Save Lives by Colm Murphy is a Social Sciences article available to read on EtoBox.
What is A Better Way to Save Lives about?
Journalism can be dangerous. The number of natural disasters, epidemics, terrorist attacks and civil disturbances is rising. Some 1,382 journalists have been killed since 1992, 64 are missing, and 246 are currently imprisoned, mainly in countries such as Turkey, China, Russia, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Somalia and Eritrea. Can we do more to protect them? International news organisations require staff going into hostile environments to take a specialist course. It can save their lives. But only a minority of journalists require highly specialist, "military battlefield style" safety training -and fewer still can get it. Most journalists killed -more than 90 per cent in 2015 and 2016, for instance -have been local journalists working for smaller news organisations in their own countries, rather than foreign correspondents getting caught in crossfire. Studies by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma, New York, and the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) have identified a significant gap in safety and resilience education. Specialist safety training, particularly for
Who reads A Better Way to Save Lives?
It is typically read by researchers, students, and practitioners in Social Sciences.
- Author
- Colm Murphy
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Social Sciences