The advocacy continuum: Towards a theory of advocacy in journalism

Fisher, Caroline

doi:10.1177/1464884915582311

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“…Advocacy journalism draws numerous parallels with the work of TV satirists, with both adopting a partisan rhetoric that TV satire often uses to express a liberal agenda (Young and Tisinger 2006: 126). What's more, they support and speak for those who are denied a powerful spokesman and promote perspectives that are typically either under, or misrepresented in the media (Fisher 2016;Janowitz 1975). Despite these similarities and examples of advocacy work carried by contemporary satirists, there is an absence of scholarship that explores the connection between them.…”

Section: Satire and Political Advocacymentioning

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Provoking the Citizen

Kilby

2018

Journalism Studies

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Provoking the Citizen: Reexamining the role of TV satire in the Trump era TV satire has been commended for its ability to hold power to account and provide audiences with context and alternative perspectives to news events. Despite accolades to public discourse and journalistic integrity, TV satire is fraught with limitations including; its inability to change politics, its ability to encourage political apathy and promote a partisan logic. While this may be a counter-liberal response to the right-wing media and politicians it critiques, TV satire often preaches to a converted audience, the potential impact of which can lead to a repudiation of deliberative politics and increased political disengagement. Under the Trump Administration, America is experiencing more intensified demonstrations of partisanship and public distrust in political and media institutions. Furthermore, in a culture where satire has become reality and critical journalism has increased, its role has become problematic. By adopting a multi-method approach of content and discourse analysis this study examined whether TV satire could offer a different approach to reporting in the Trump era. The study found that TV satire is adopting solution and motivation building frames associated with advocacy journalism in an attempt to encourage audiences to engage with traditional forms of civic participation.

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Section: Satire and Political Advocacymentioning

confidence: 99%

Provoking the Citizen

Kilby

2018

Journalism Studies

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“…Both documentaries focus on the plight of Ghana's remand prisoners: persons detained and/or imprisoned while awaiting trial. As highly successful examples of advocacy journalism (Fisher 2016), Boateng's documentaries both informed the public about life in Ghana's congested prisons and strengthened the hand of organisations and individuals calling for change. For example, after viewing Locked and Forgotten, Chief Justice Georgina Theodora Wood insisted that all Ghanaian judges and magistrates watch the documentary and visit their local prisons.…”

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Pursuing the Horizon of Penal Abolition in Seth Kwame Boateng’s Documentaries

Asare

2019

Int J for Crime, Justice & Social Democracy

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Two recent documentaries by award-winning journalist Seth Kwame Boateng, Locked and Forgotten (2015) and Left to Rot (2016), have played an important role in recent Ghanaian prison reform efforts. This paper identifies the ways these documentaries extend beyond a reformist agenda and move towards a more radical vision of penal abolition. By creating a dialogue between Boateng’s documentaries and the analyses and frameworks of penal abolitionism, this paper calls for a remapping of global abolitionist discourse to include critiques of ‘criminal justice’ that are articulated in diverse geographical, cultural and rhetorical locations.

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“…Journalists have also transitioned into roles in NGOs, charities and issue-based advocacy organizations that are all involved in digital campaigning (Spyksma, 2017;Vromen, 2016). 'Digital campaigning' describes a cluster of professional practices that share some aspects with campaign journalism or advocacy journalism (Fisher, 2015). On the one hand, some newspaper companies valorize their 'campaign journalism', for example, News Corp's internal annual awards have a Campaign category.…”

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Enthusiasm for Making a Difference: Adapting Data Journalism Skills for Digital Campaigning

Fuller

2018

Asia Pacific Media Educator

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Journalism is conventionally taught through a 'teaching hospital' type model involving a set of tacit professional skills largely developed through experience (Anderson, Glaisyer, Smith, & Rothfeld, 2011). This article reports on the approach taken to adapt data journalism pedagogy for a digital campaigning unit in a journalism course. The main focus is building confidence with developing relevant technical skills in what Davies and Cullen (2016) describe as 'quantitative literacy'. Although there is a range of ways to approach the turn to 'data journalism' (Coddington, 2015), teaching aspects of data and computational journalism with students can be difficult as the focus on technical and math skills contravenes the self-identity of journalism students as writers or similar (Nguyen & Lugo-Ocando, 2015). Meyer and Land's (2005) pedagogical theory of the 'threshold concept' is used to think through the affective aspects of a practical exercise for developing 'data confidence'. Journalism has long attracted students with a social justice orientation and who want to 'make a difference' (Vromen, 2016), and challenging students to appreciate the social change context of online engagement is often sufficient to enthuse a student into developing technical skills. The example explored here should be useful for journalism educators in other contexts approaching the common challenge of working with students to develop 'data confidence'.

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The advocacy continuum: Towards a theory of advocacy in journalism

Cited by 49 publications

References 43 publications

Provoking the Citizen

Provoking the Citizen

Pursuing the Horizon of Penal Abolition in Seth Kwame Boateng’s Documentaries

Enthusiasm for Making a Difference: Adapting Data Journalism Skills for Digital Campaigning

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