Mindful Journalism and News Ethics in the Digital Era: A Buddhist Approach (Routledge Research in Journalism) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1138306061 ISBN 13: 9781138306066

Publisher: Routledge, 2017

Synopsis

This book aims to be the first comprehensive exposition of "mindful journalism"―drawn from core Buddhist ethical principles―as a fresh approach to journalism ethics. It suggests that Buddhist mindfulness strategies can be applied purposively in journalism to add clarity, fairness and equity to news decision-making and to offer a moral compass to journalists facing ethical dilemmas in their work. It comes at a time when ethical values in the news media are in crisis from a range of technological, commercial and social factors, and when both Buddhism and mindfulness have gained considerable acceptance in Western societies. Further, it aims to set out foundational principles to assist journalists dealing with vulnerable sources and recovering from traumatic assignments.

About this title

About the Author

Shelton A. Gunaratne is Professor Emeritus in the School of Journalism and Communication  at Minnesota State University Moorhead, USA

Mark Pearson is Professor of Journalism and Social Media in the School of Humanities at Griffith University, Australia

Sugath Senarath is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Mass Media at the University of Colombo Sri Palee Campus, Sri Lanka

Review

"This volume [...] makes a significant internatinoal contribution to the discipline by demonstrating how a Buddhist approach can build understanding of journalism's place in the world and its power, and be used to improve journalism practice." --Lisa Waller, Australian Journalism Review 37(1)

"All in all, the book is an important contribution to the value of religions - here Buddhism - for journalism ethics though one might also argue that this is not only for journalists in the strict sense but for anybody involved in communication which is in a didtal world almost everybody." -- Franz-Josef, svd, Journal of the Asian Research Center for Religion and Social Communication

 

"[T]he authors deserve many compliments for bringing out such a unified and exemplary alternative paradigm that is useful for both media academics and practitioners across the globe. Further, academics do well by prescribing this as a text as part of the curriculum of media ethics and practices in all the universities. In fact such an exercise will facilitate a broader debate and rethinking among the stakeholders on the need to revise or revisit the existing obsolescent and negative-centric media ethics and practices." --C. S. H. N. Murthy, Asian Journal of Communication

 

"Mindful Journalism and News Ethics in the Digital Era could easily become a testament to journalism practitioners and students to measure newsworthiness by the standard of mindful gatekeeping which determines a very simple path but one that needs cultivation of a technique in a true human sense. The editor authors of this book have endeavored consistently to globalize journalism studies by the fusion of West-centric mainstream journalism studies and Eastern philosophies." --Chandrika De Alwis, The International Communication Gazette

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1138306061
• ISBN 13: 9781138306066
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240
• Editor: Gunaratne Shelton A.