Table Of ContentINSIGHTS ON PEACE AND
CONFLICT REPORTING
AsthesecondbookintheRoutledgeJournalism Insightsseries,thiseditedcollection
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
ofthechangestakingplaceintheworkingpracticesofjournalistsasongoing,strategic
assaultsagainstthemincrease.
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.
Kristin Skare Orgeret is a professor in the Department of Journalism and Media
Studies at OsloMet University, Norway, where she co-heads the research group
MEKK (Media, War, Conflict). She has published extensively within the fields of
global digital journalism, democratisation and conflict resolution, and gender and
the media.
JOURNALISM INSIGHTS
The Journalism Insights series provides edited collections of theoretically grounded
casestudyanalysesonaneclecticrangeofjournalisticareas,frompeaceandconflict
reporting to fashion and sports reporting.
The series has a bias towards the contemporary, but each volume includes an
important historical, contextualising section. Volumes offer international coverage
and focus on both mainstream and ‘alternative’ media, always considering the
impact of social media in the various fields.
The volumes are aimed at both undergraduate and postgraduate students of
journalism as well as media and communication programmes who will find the
texts original, interesting and inspirational.
For information on submitting a proposal for the series, please contact the Series
Editor Richard Lance Keeble, of the University of Lincoln and Liverpool Hope
University, at [email protected]
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INSIGHTS ON PEACE
AND CONFLICT
REPORTING
Edited by Kristin Skare Orgeret
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CONTENTS
List of contributors vii
Acknowledgements xi
Introduction: Reporting on processes of peace and conflict 1
Kristin Skare Orgeret
1 Peace and conflict reporting in a world-in-crisis 10
Simon Cottle
2 Obstacles for critical journalism in the security policy sector:
Revisiting peace journalism 32
Stig A. Nohrstedt and Rune Ottosen
3 Peace and conflict journalism: An African perspective 50
Winston Mano
4 Resolution, resistance, resilience: Covering the conflict in
South Sudan 61
Charlotte Ntulume
5 The Rohingya refugee in the Bangladeshi press 75
Kajalie Shehreen Islam and Mubashar Hasan
6 How our rage is represented: Acts of resistance among women
photographers of the Global South 89
Saumava Mitra, Sara Creta and Stephanie McDonald
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7 Citizen journalism: Is Bellingcat revolutionising conflict
journalism? 106
Glenda Cooper and Bruce Mutsvairo
8 The new frontline: Women journalists at the intersection of
converging digital age threats 121
Julie Posetti
9 Creating capacity for peace: The power of news and civil
norm building 139
Jackie Harrison and Stef Pukallus
10 Covering conflict: Safety, sanity and responsibility 152
Jonathan Munro
Index 165
CONTRIBUTORS
GlendaCooperPhDisaseniorlecturerinjournalismatCity,UniversityofLondon.
ShehaspublishedextensivelyontherelationshipbetweenjournalistsandNGOsandis
theauthorofReportingHumanitarianDisastersinaSocialMediaAge(Routledge,2018)
andco-editorofHumanitarianism,CommunicationsandChange(PeterLang,2015).She
was a Guardian Research Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford. She has worked
as a staff reporter and editor on many leading media organisations including The
Independent, Sunday Times, Washington Post, Daily Telegraph and BBC Radio 4.
Simon Cottle is Professor of Media and Communications in the School of
Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies (JOMEC), at Cardiff University, UK.
He is the author of many books on media and the communication of conflicts,
crises and catastrophes. These include Mediatized Conflicts (2006), Global Crisis
Reporting (2009), Transnational Protests and the Media (ed. with L. Lester) (2011),
Humanitarianism, Communications and Change (ed. with G. Cooper) (2015) and
Reporting Dangerously: Journalist Killings, Intimidation and Security (with R. Sambrook
and N. Mosdell). He is Series Editor for the Global Crises and Media Series for
the publisher Peter Lang.
Sara Creta is an award-winning journalist and documentary filmmaker, with
extensive experience investigating human rights abuses in Sudan, Ethiopia,
Bangladesh, DRC, Libya, Chad, Cameroon, Morocco, Tunisia, the Gaza Strip
and while on board a rescue ship in the Mediterranean. Currently she is pursuing
her doctorate at the School of Communications of Dublin City University under
the Future of Journalism Institute. Much of her research focuses on how dissident
actors use Internet technologies in affecting political action in the Horn of Africa
region. She is recipient of a scholarship from the European Union’s Horizon 2020
research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant.
viii Listofcontributors
Jackie Harrison is Professor of Public Communication and UNESCO Chair on
Media Freedom, Journalism Safety and the Issue of Impunity at the University of
Sheffield. She is Chair of the Centre for Freedom of the Media (CFOM). Her
latest book, The Civil Power of the News (Palgrave, 2019) examines the civil role of
the factual mass media and how they express and interpret our invariant civil
concerns, public controversies and conflict. Her work focuses on how they can be
a focal point of civil reconciliation and resistance as well as how assaults on the
factual mass media lead to their civil diminishment.
Mubashar Hasan is an adjunct research fellow at the Humanitarian and
DevelopmentResearchInitiative,UniversityofWesternSydney,Australia.Heisthe
authorofIslamandPoliticsinBangladesh:TheFollowersofUmmah(PalgraveMacmillan,
2020) and the lead editor of Radicalization in South Asia: Context, Trajectories and
Implications (Sage, 2019). He has also published in Australian Journal of Politics and
History,AsianJournalofPoliticalScienceandHarvardAsiaQuarterly.
Kajalie Shehreen Islam, PhD, is Assistant Professor, Department of Mass
Communication and Journalism, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. Her research
interests include political communication, and gender and media. Her work has
been published in national and international journals and books. Islam was also a
journalist with Bangladesh’s leading English-language newspaper, The Daily Star,
covering human rights, gender, politics, development and more.
Winston Mano is Reader at the University of Westminster, UK, and member of
the Communication Research Institute’s Global Media Research Network. Mano
is also the Principal Editor of the Journal of African Media Studies and a Senior
Research Fellow at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa.
Stephanie McDonald currently works for an Irish Traveller and Roma civil
society organisation in Dublin, Ireland. Previously she worked as a policy analyst,
and in communication roles, with CSOs and inter-governmental bodies in Canada
and East Africa. Shebegan her career working asa news reporterin theNorthwest
Territories and Nunavut, in the Canadian North.
Saumava Mitra is Assistant Professor at the School of Communications of
Dublin City University, Ireland. His research focuses on identifying the gen-
dered and geopolitical inequities inherent in photographs of – and acts sur-
rounding photographing – violent and social conflicts. He is interested in both
the questions of how these inequities are inscribed into the photographic
images of conflicts as well as the effects of these inequities on the lives and
livelihoods of those who produce these images. Prior to joining DCU, Mitra
worked in journalism, communications and academia in South Asia, East Africa,
North and Central America and Western Europe.
Listofcontributors ix
JonathanMunroisHeadofNewsgatheringatBBCNews.Inthatrole,hemanages
the BBC’s coverage and deployment within the UK and globally for all its English
language output. He sits on the senior leadership team at the BBC, and regularly
deputises for the Director of News. Jonathan has previously worked at ITN, the
UK’sleadingcommercial newsbroadcaster,where hestarted asanEditorial Trainee,
laterbecomingaforeignCorrespondent,NewsEditorandultimatelyDeputyEditor.
Bruce Mutsvairo (PhD Leiden University, 2013) is a Professor of Journalism
at Auburn University in the United States. His research sits at the intersection
of journalism, social media and democratisation in the Global South. He is the
founding editor of the book series Palgrave Studies in Journalism and the
Global South.
Stig A.Nohrstedtis ProfessorEmeritusinMediaandCommunicationScienceat
Örebro University and holds a PhD in Political Science from Uppsala University,
Sweden. He has published a number of books and articles on war journalism,
journalism ethics and crisis communication.
Charlotte Ntulume is Lecturer in the Department of Journalism and
Communication, Makerere University, Uganda. Her research interests include:
media and conflict, peace journalism, and crisis communication. Ntulume’s doctoral
research at the University of Oslo, Norway, was on coverage and framing of the
2013 South Sudan conflict in East African newspapers. She has previously served in
editorial roles in some of the leading newspapers in Uganda, and has worked with
the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and United Nations Office for
the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in Uganda as a communication
specialist in the areas of strategic communication, humanitarian coordination and
crisis prevention and recovery.
Kristin Skare Orgeret is Professor at the Department of Journalism and Media
Studiesat OsloMetUniversity, Norway.She co-headsthe researchgroup MEKK
(Media, War, Conflict), which organises annual international conferences on the
safety of journalists. She has published extensively within the fields of global
journalism, freedom of expression and gender and the media. Orgeret led the
NORHED-funded project “Bridging Gaps, Building Futures” (2014–2020),
which aimed at strengthening media and journalism in (post-)conflict conditions
through research and higher education in Nepal, Uganda and South Sudan.
RuneOttosenisapoliticalscientistandjournalist,professoremeritusinjournalismat
OsloMetUniversity,Norway.Hehaswrittenextensivelyonpresshistoryandmedia
coverage of war and conflicts. He is co-author with Stig Arne Nohrstedt of several
booksonwarandpeacejournalism.In2010,hewasoneoftheeditorsandco-author
of the four-volume Norwegian Press History, Norsk Presses historie (1767–2010). His
