Media Ethics and Disasters
Lessons from the Black Saturday Bushfires
$75.47
- Paperback
250 pages
- Release Date
15 February 2011
Summary
Journalists do not often get the chance to reflect on the ethical side of their work, and the public they serve knows little about it. What the public sees is often negative- intrusive cameras, shouted questions, rude and aggressive behaviour. But journalists tend to go from one story to the next with little time to think deeply about the impact their work has on the people they cover, or how their professional practices might be refined.Written in collaboration with the Centre for Advanced J…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780522859805 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0522859801 |
| Author: | Denis Muller |
| Publisher: | Melbourne University Press |
| Imprint: | Melbourne University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 250 |
| Release Date: | 15 February 2011 |
| Weight: | 222g |
| Dimensions: | 211mm x 139mm x 11mm |
| Series: | MUP Academic Monographs |
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About The Author
Denis Muller
Dr Denis Muller was a newspaper journalist for 27 years, mainly for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, Melbourne. His doctoral thesis was on media ethics and accountability. He is a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Public Policy and the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at the University of Melbourne and teaches ethics to journalism students at Swinburne University.
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