Critical Comparative Analyses of Human Rights Journalism, Peace Journalism, Global Journalism and Human Rights Reporting

Abstract

Having critically discussed the conceptualisation of human rights journalism (HRJ) as a distinct style of journalism based on cosmopolitan global justice, I will now proceed to focus, in this and the following chapter, on discussing how it compares to other, alternative genres of journalism, which serve as counterweights to mainstream journalism. This chapter is poised to show how the human rights-based approach to journalism makes HRJ stand out in the pack of alternative models, not only in helping to promote public knowledge and understanding of issues, processes and events but also in ensuring that journalists who follow it see themselves as having the moral responsibility — as duty bearers — to educate the public and increase its awareness of its rights; to monitor, investigate and cover all human rights violations; and above all to advocate pro-actively how to address or prevent them. This chapter takes the following structure: HRJ and peace journalism (PJ) within the justpeace framework; second, how it is different from global journalism; and, finally, its historical links with human rights reporting in the context of honest journalism versus objective journalism.KeywordsPolitical ViolenceGlobal JusticeGlobal OutlookDominant VoiceDuty BearerThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.