Reframing Reporting of Childhood Sexual Exploitation

Three journalists reflect

Dados Bibliográficos

ID12909757
AutoresSarah Niblock (0000-0002-0033-7530, University of Westminster, autor correspondente), Julie Bindel (University of Lincoln)
Ano2016
Volume11
Fascículo5
Páginas577-591
Data de publicação2016-04-06
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournalism Practice (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1751-2786 • E-ISSN: 1751-2794
EditoraTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17512786.2016.1164613
OpenAlexW2340202104
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas5
Referências citadas15

This article explores three national and local journalists’ experiences of reporting on child sexual exploitation by so-called “Asian street grooming gangs” in UK towns and cities, with a particular emphasis on journalists framing journalists. In response to coverage of a series of cases, journalists have been accused by academics, policymakers and rival media organizations of fixating on perpetrators’ ethnicity and creating distorted, racist media frames. Few, if any, studies have garnered practitioners’ perspectives on how framing occurs, so we interview three prominent journalists who have covered such cases in order to deepen our understanding of the processes and causative factors behind particular editorial angles. While offering only a snapshot view, our findings reveal these individual journalists to be caught at the nexus of a range of factors that impact upon their work, both internally and externally driven

Cognitive reframing · Framing (construction · Media studies · Political science · Public relations · Sociology · Gender, Feminism, and Media · History · Homelessness and Social Issues · Psychology · Sex work and related issues · Social Psychology