The Perceptions of Journalists Regarding Issues in Conflict Reporting
Abstract
Covering conflict reporting in Pakistan in general and in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in particular is an overwhelming challenge for the journalists. Securities, lack of adequate information, authenticity of information, are the problems, among others, which badly affect journalists of the area under consideration. This study explores the perception of the journalists regarding the issues in reporting from conflict zone of district Swat, Pakistan. In order to investigate the major problems faced by the journalists of district Swat while covering conflict reporting, this study focuses on the quantitative survey of journalists registered with different press clubs of district Swat. The results of the study show that journalists working in conflict zone face several problems such as: vulnerability due to associated threats and killing of reporters, no access to information and its sources, Justice component in information collection and investigation, high risk in fact finding and reporting, risk in accessing insurgents for information, insufficient instruments for covering conflict reporting etc. The results of this study enable us to import better policy recommendations for the improvement of covering conflict reporting in conflict zone.
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