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Mainstream journalism needs a complete overhaul if it is to survive as a legitimate voice of society, according to a Sierra Leonean academic at Northumbria University.
In his new book, Human Rights Journalism: Advances in Reporting Distant Humanitarian Interventions(http://www.palgrave.com/products/ti... Check this link for more info), Dr Ibrahim Seaga Shaw explores the role of the media in relation to human rights issues, making the case for the adoption of a new model of human rights journalism.
His outlook has been shaped by his own experiences as editor of an award-winning newspaper in Sierra Leone during the mid-1990s. His advocacy for a peaceful resolution between the rebels and the government during the build up to civil war found him imprisoned on several occasions, labelled a ‘collaborator’ of the military junta.
Forced into exile in 1998, Dr Shaw, now a Senior Lecturer in Media and Politics, was motivated to write a book exploring the role of the media in the promotion and protection of human rights.
He argues that mainstream media and journalism panders to stories that governments and companies want them to write rather than highlighting the real issues affecting the grass roots communities.
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