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Journalism Can Be an Agent of Peace
David Robie – New Matilda,
12 May 2014
Embracing ‘peace journalism’ will help journalists be part of the solution. The study of wars and news media portrayal and reportage of conflict has been well developed as an academic discipline, termed by some as “war journalism”. But the study of peace journalism lags far behind. War journalism often focuses on violence as its own cause and is less open to examining the deep structural origins of the conflict. Heavy reliance on official sources leads to a general zero-sum analysis and deepens divisions.
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