The Humanitarian Journalism research project is investigating how the news media report on humanitarian crises, what shapes their coverage and what influences it has.
Latest Article
Why Humanosphere’s hibernation matters – and what we can do about it
Published on: www.humanosphere.org. On 1st July, Humanosphere is taking a break – possibly never to return. Since 2010, they have been reporting daily on global health, aid and development issues for both mainstream and ‘insider’ …Read More »
Other Recent Articles
Does the Daily Mail’s criticism of aid matter?
Published on: the Guardian. In the wake of the UK General election result, the assumption that British newspapers have a …Read More »
How does donor funding influence humanitarian journalism?
Humanitarian reporting has never been lucrative, and with the ongoing decline in budgets and the squeezing of newsrooms resources, news …Read More »
What makes news humanitarian?
Published on: elpais.com. The dilemmas of reporting on suffering On April 4, horrible pictures of the suffering of victims of …Read More »
Latest Research Publications
BOOK CHAPTER: The Politics of Humanitarian Journalism
In this chapter, we draw attention to the considerable gaps in our knowledge about humanitarian journalism. While there has been …
ARTICLE: Slack, virtual newsrooms and journalistic practice
Abstract Virtual newsrooms are widely seen as having huge potential: enabling journalists around the world to pool their knowledge, skills …
ARTICLE: The influence of foundation funding on international journalism
Abstract: How does donor funding affect the independence, role perceptions, and ideology of the journalism it supports? We begin to …
Header image:
Photojournalist Knowles-Coursin aboard a UN cargo helicopter
headed to Jonglei State, South Sudan, in late 2013.
