Tag: journalism
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Hands on journalism: Turkey’s defiant media show humanity in action
Journalists covering the earthquake disaster in Turkey and Syria walk a fine ethical line between doing their job as reporters while at the same time giving practical help to people overwhelmed by the tragedy. In the critical hours after the earthquake journalists joined humanitarian aid workers in helping to save people trapped under collapsed buildings
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International media don’t see LGBTI+ resistance in Turkey, like to paint a picture of a ‘country in flames’
While the LGBTI+ community in Turkey struggles with internal violence and hate speech, it also stands up to the “Eurocentric” approach of the international media. The rights defenders we spoke with criticize the international media’s view of LGBTI+ news in Turkey as “a country in flames,” based on the latest example on the PinkNews website.
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News Deserts Spread in Turkey’s Inner Aegean, Central Anatolian and Eastern Regions
Over the course of two weeks, we scraped 1,116,916 news articles from more than 6,500 Turkish news websites in which the names of 973 districts appear. Which districts have the highest or lowest coverage? Where do we see original journalism the most and where exactly lacks it? Which districts of Turkey face the risk of
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Press freedom in Turkey: Repression is all too real
Tim Dawson traveled to Turkey from November 27-30 2019 to observe and monitor journalists trials as well as participate in an International Conference within the framework of the “Journalism is not a crime” EU-funded project implemented by the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) and the Turkish Journalists Union (TGS).