How do journalists working for state-funded international news organizations legitimize their relationship to the governments which support them?
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In this chapter, we define humanitarian journalism and give an overview of previous research on this subject.
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We show that foundation funding has a significant effect on how journalists understand, value and practice their work.
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By Martin Scott, Kate Wright and Mel Bunce. In this report we present some of the findings of our four year, global research project into the state of humanitarian journalism around the world. We ask, Which news organisations regularly report on humanitarian affairs? How are they funded, and what ethical problems or professional dilemmas does […]
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What effects has NGOs' shift into news production had on journalism and NGO-work?
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We investigate how a private donor's motivation to 'look good' shapes journalists' ability to 'do good'.
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This article discusses a year-long study of a digital news outlet, whose journalists collaborate, almost exclusively, via Slack.
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The ethical dilemmas for journalists when donors are alleged to have been involved in unethical activities.
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How does donor funding affect the independence, role perceptions, and ideology of the journalism it supports?
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By Kate Wright (@newsprof1) What does it mean to talk about NGOs as news organisations? Non-Governmental Organisations have long sought to shape news by providing research briefings, constructing newsworthy events or enabling journalists to access case studies. But in the past decade, scholars have highlighted the ways in which NGOs are changing organisationally to become […]
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Kate Wright
June 17, 2020
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