Abstract
The study aims to analyze the level of awareness of media professionals
about the national and international laws and ethics in crisis and
conflict reporting and its effects on their performance. Journalists are
facing problems in the coverage of crisis and conflict due to lack of
national and international laws and ethics. For this study, the
researchers used quantitative methodology, while survey technique was
used for data collection. The researchers used questionnaire consisted
19 close-ended questions as data collection tool, whereas, random
sampling method was used and collected data from 635 journalists in
Peshawar, Charsadda and Swat districts. The data was interpreted
through Statistical Package of Social Sciences (SPSS: version-19). The
study revealed that (53%) of the journalists have poor knowledge about
laws and ethics, while (66.1%) have less awareness about Geneva
Convention of 1949. The research also disclosed that (64.4%) of them
have less understanding regarding Additional Protocol & International
Convention on Civil and Political Rights (ICCRP-1960), (69.9%)
haven’t awareness about the United Nations Security Council
Resolution 1738 of 2006, (76.1%) of them have no knowledge about‘
Charter of Safety of Journalists’ working in war zones (2008), whereas
(62.9%) of the media professionals have poor understanding of the
United Nations Plan of Action on the Safety of Journalists and the Issue
of Impunity 2012. The research explored too that (63.3%) of the
journalists have knowledge regarding Article 19 of the 1973
Constitution of Pakistan.The study confirmed the hypothesis on the
base of correlation test that Laws and ethics .091* with a significant
value of 0.049 with journalists’ performance. From the statistical
values, it is confirmed that there is a positive relationship between
Laws & ethics and performance. The laws and policies related to the
crises reporting management are not implemented in the fields but onlyexplained and defined in the papers, so their implementation is
required for the enhancement of journalists’ performance.
Sajjad Ali, Noshina Saleem. (2017) JOURNALIST’S KNOW-HOW ABOUT JOURNALISTIC CODE OF ETHICS AND LAWS IN CRISIS REPORTING AND ITS IMPLICATIONS, Pakistan , Volume 53, Issue 1.
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