This book explores the role and purpose of journalism to spark and propagate change by investigating human rights journalism and its capacity to inform, educate and activate change. Downman and Ubayasiri maximize this approach by proposing a new paradigm of reporting through the use of human-focussed news values. This approach is a radical departure from the traditional style that typically builds on abstract concepts. The book will explore human rights journalism through the lens of complex issues such as human trafficking and people smuggling in the Asian context. This is not just a book for journalists, or journalism academics, but a book for activists, human rights advocates or anyone who believes in the power of journalism to change the world.

Explains journalism as a sociological process that helps underpin and highlight journalism's role in instigating and facilitating social change Draws from both mainstream and alternative media reportage of human rights advocacy, to illustrate best practice models, shortcomings and limitations in the contemporary coverage, and where possible make suggestions on better reporting strategies Case studies are drawn from South and Southeast Asia, an area rarely subjected to academic scrutiny in the field of human rights journalism Provides a holistic approach to human rights reporting, linking armed conflicts and poverty, with refugee migration, people smuggling and human trafficking Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Scott Downman is a Journalism Lecturer at the University of Queensland. Scott has worked in anti-human trafficking project in Southeast Asia for more than a decade. Kasun Ubayasiri is a Journalism Lecturer at Griffith University, and a former Sri Lankan journalist with a special interest in human rights and conflict reporting.

Inhalt
Chapter 1: Journalism for Social Change in Human Rights Journalism .- Chapter 2: Human Rights as a news value .- Chapter 3: Advocacy journalism, social media and citizen reporters: Chapter 4: Human trafficking, people smuggling, refugee migration and the media .- Chapter 5: Smuggled or trafficked: the story of the Rohingya .- Chapter 6: Human Right reporting, war crimes and refugee migration .- Chapter 7: A human rights approach to media coverage of human trafficking .- Chapter 8: Multiple narratives truths and spin of human trafficking .- Chapter 9: Multidimensional approach to human rights reporting in the digital age.