Coverage of Pakistani tribal areas conflict: Prospects of peace journalism

Conflict coverage of Pakistani tribal areas from two Pakistani English-language newspapers demonstrated significance of variations on indicators of war and peace journalism. Overall, the mean on war journalism was significantly higher than peace journalism. Despite dissimilar newspapers’ ideologies,...

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Main Authors: Najma Sadiq, Sehar-un-Nisa Hassan
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Berlin Regener Publishing House 2017-10-01
Series:Conflict & Communication Online
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Online Access:http://www.cco.regener-online.de/2017_2/pdf/sadiq-hassan2017.pdf
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description Conflict coverage of Pakistani tribal areas from two Pakistani English-language newspapers demonstrated significance of variations on indicators of war and peace journalism. Overall, the mean on war journalism was significantly higher than peace journalism. Despite dissimilar newspapers’ ideologies, the reporting patterns were the same across newspapers. The mean differences within war journalism were significant across events and types of stories. The findings discussed in the light of theory and context suggested areas of interventions for peace journalism. The dominance of peace journalism indicator, “causes and consequences”, is promising in a way to create a space for analysis of the conflict dynamics.
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Coverage of Pakistani tribal areas conflict: Prospects of peace journalism
Conflict & Communication Online
Pakistani Tribal Areas
Peace Journalism
News coverage
Conflict Reporting
Reporting Hazards
title Coverage of Pakistani tribal areas conflict: Prospects of peace journalism
title_full Coverage of Pakistani tribal areas conflict: Prospects of peace journalism
title_fullStr Coverage of Pakistani tribal areas conflict: Prospects of peace journalism
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title_short Coverage of Pakistani tribal areas conflict: Prospects of peace journalism
title_sort coverage of pakistani tribal areas conflict prospects of peace journalism
topic Pakistani Tribal Areas
Peace Journalism
News coverage
Conflict Reporting
Reporting Hazards
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