Global justice, Factual Reporting and Advocacy Journalism

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Pearson, Mark
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Ward, Stephen

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2021
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This chapter argues global justice can be a legitimate ethical objective of journalism, requiring factuality as a platform and achievable in some situations through advocacy journalism. It explores definitional boundaries and ethical dimensions of ‘global justice’, ‘factual reporting’ and ‘advocacy journalism’. The chapter explains that some works of advocacy journalism might encourage ‘ethical flourishing’ as Ward promotes in “Ethical Flourishing as Aim of Global Media Ethics.” Indeed, as Ward argues, in Global Journalism Ethics, some stories require journalists to consider what is best for the global community. It introduces a taxonomy of factuality in ethical reporting, which includes a spectrum of fact sourcing, selection, verification, inclusion, exclusion, ordering, ramifications and revisiting. It examines the dimensions of ‘advocacy journalism’ and exemplifies how the notions of factuality and advocacy are not mutually exclusive. It links this with the mindful exploration of intent and livelihood suggested in the foundational principles of ‘mindful journalism’ (Gunaratne et al., Mindful Journalism).

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Handbook of Global Media Ethics

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Communication and media studies

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Pearson, M, Global justice, Factual Reporting and Advocacy Journalism, Handbook of Global Media Ethics, 2021, pp. 601-618

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