Safety and Story: A Balancing Act
2006-4-15 11:11:55
Journalist Jill Carroll has spent her time in Iraq as a reporter, a hostage and now a free woman.
As the story of her capture and release moves to the stage of inquiry, a larger story looms for journalists to explore.
It's a story of risk, safety and democracy. Of relationships between news organizations and reporters, freelancers and their contractors.
The picture of the fresh, bespectacled young woman smiling beneath a black headscarf -- and, later, that same face, sans headscarf and glasses, pleading for her own life on a grainy video screen -- has come to personify the struggle American newspapers and their journalists face as they report from war zones and dangerous places around the world.
It's an old story. Reporters have been going into war zones for millennia, since Josephus wrote about the brutal Roman siege of Jerusalem in A.D. 70.
For newspapers whose mission it is to bring their readers independent coverage of conflict and crisis abroad and at home, it's question with life-and-death implications.
Jill Carroll is one of hundreds -- perhaps thousands? -- of journalists who work in places where most outsiders dare not go. War zones. Regions plagued by instability. Places of genocide, disease and poverty. Sites of natural disasters and their disquieting aftermaths.
Carroll's experience offers journalists an opportunity to think more broadly about the promise and risk that come with such coverage.
How should newsrooms weigh the risks of sending reporters into dangerous locations against the public's need to know?
How do journalists reconcile the tension between safety and story?
As the story of her capture and release moves to the stage of inquiry, a larger story looms for journalists to explore.
It's a story of risk, safety and democracy. Of relationships between news organizations and reporters, freelancers and their contractors.
The picture of the fresh, bespectacled young woman smiling beneath a black headscarf -- and, later, that same face, sans headscarf and glasses, pleading for her own life on a grainy video screen -- has come to personify the struggle American newspapers and their journalists face as they report from war zones and dangerous places around the world.
It's an old story. Reporters have been going into war zones for millennia, since Josephus wrote about the brutal Roman siege of Jerusalem in A.D. 70.
For newspapers whose mission it is to bring their readers independent coverage of conflict and crisis abroad and at home, it's question with life-and-death implications.
Jill Carroll is one of hundreds -- perhaps thousands? -- of journalists who work in places where most outsiders dare not go. War zones. Regions plagued by instability. Places of genocide, disease and poverty. Sites of natural disasters and their disquieting aftermaths.
Carroll's experience offers journalists an opportunity to think more broadly about the promise and risk that come with such coverage.
How should newsrooms weigh the risks of sending reporters into dangerous locations against the public's need to know?
How do journalists reconcile the tension between safety and story?
origin：Poynter Institute
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