Conference paper

Reporting on Diversity: Education in the Forefront

Stjepan Malović ; Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

As certain problems in reporting on minorities were noticed, a wide movement of sensitization of media has begun. Journalists are receiving training in order to be able to recognize minority issues. Journalists are just not sensitive enough to report on minorities. Journalists of the majority media report on media in a quite general and common manner, which doesn't yield very good results. Even the language of the report itself, or just a word or an allusion can provoke undesired impression. Thus journalists of the majority media should develop sensibility for this type of reporting. The journalists of the minority media on the other hand usually lack sufficient level of training, deal with quite obsolete or low quality journalism and many of them are not even professional journalists and therefore their media do not provoke much interest of the very minority members. In order thus to have a better reporting on differences it is necessary for the journalists to receive professional training.

Keywords

journalism; media; education; minorities; students

Hrčak ID:

286846

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/286846

Publication date:

30.9.2003.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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