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This article assesses the potential of online news reporting to create discursive spaces for emphatic engagement--of bearing witness--at a distance, especially where human rights violations are concerned. Taking as its focus the emergent forms and practices of citizen journalism, it examines the spontaneous actions of ordinary people compelled to adopt the role of news reporter in order to bear witness to human suffering. Specifically, findings derived from three case studies of citizen journalism are presented: 1) the 2004 South Asian Tsunami; 2) human rights abuses in India's north-east region; and 3) the Palestinian Crisis in the Occupied Territories. In each instance, it is argued, citizen journalism engendered new approaches to eyewitness reporting, a process shown to have important implications for challenging familiar "us and them" dichotomies in news reports. (Contains 8 notes.)

An introduction is presented in which the editors discuss the contents within the issue, including articles on topics such as journalism in Spain and Sweden, storytelling and truth-seeking among journalists in the Netherlands and Belgium, and journalistic criticism on social media.

In the twenty-teens, there are increasing numbers of women occupying executive positions in politics, business and the law but their words and actions rarely make the front page. In this article, we draw on data collected as part of the 2015 Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) and focus on England, Scotland, Wales and the Republic of Ireland. Since the first GMMP in 1995, there has been a slow but steady rise in the proportion of women who feature, report or present the news (now at 24 per cent), but that increase is a mere 7 per cent over 20 years. Not only is there a problem with visibility but our data also suggest that when women are present, their contributions are often confined to the realm of the private as they speak as citizens rather than experts and in stories about health but not politics. Just over a third of the media professionals we coded were women and older women are almost entirely missing from the media scene. Citizens and democracy more generally are poorly served by a news media which privileges men's voices, actions and views over the other 51 per cent of the population: we surely deserve better. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An introduction is presented in which the editor discusses various reports within the issue on topics including paradoxical tensions in new media ecology, citizen expectations of journalism and journalists, and interactions between journalists and audiences.

Presents an introduction to the August 1, 2005 issue of the periodical "Journalism."

The article presents a case study on British Broadcasting Corp.'s (BBC) "Newsround" website for children citing the contributions of journalism to public service. It examines the prefered news values, information gathering techniques and presentational strategies used in the website citing the effects of changes to the organizational culture of BBC as a public service broadcaster and its commitment to improve online services to children and the youth.