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Papers by Gavin Rees
Viele Journalisten werden in ihrer Arbeit mit Traumata verschiedenster Art konfrontiert. Bis heut... more Viele Journalisten werden in ihrer Arbeit mit Traumata verschiedenster Art konfrontiert. Bis heute verhindern die vorherrschenden Einstellungen und Selbstbilder im Journalismus jedoch, offen uber die mit der Arbeit verbundenen Belastungen und ihre moglichen psychischen Folgen zu diskutieren. Dieser Beitrag zeigt, wie die BBC den Trauma-Risk-Management-Ansatz (TRiM), der ursprunglich von einem Spezialkommando der britischen Royal Marines entwickelt und eingesetzt wurde, auf den Medienbereich ubertragen hat. Zwischen Militar und Journalismus lassen sich bestimmte Analogien herstellen, weshalb es sinnvoll ist, die Ansatze zur Traumabewaltigung des einen Bereiches auf ihre Anwendbarkeit im anderen Bereich hin zu uberprufen. Insbesondere das sogenannte »peer-monitoring« hat sich als uberaus erfolgreiche Methode erwiesen, um das Stigma, das bis heute nahezu unweigerlich damit verbunden ist, wenn ein Mensch in Folge von traumatischem Stress erkrankt, zu reduzieren.
Digital Journalism
The political and media rhetoric of the pandemic is that of conflict and a call to arms in face o... more The political and media rhetoric of the pandemic is that of conflict and a call to arms in face of a hidden enemy. But this is not a distant war where journalists are parachuted in to report on the...
Networking Knowledge: Journal of the MeCCSA Postgraduate Network
Journalists interview people; it is fundamental to their trade. And yet interviewing is given ver... more Journalists interview people; it is fundamental to their trade. And yet interviewing is given very little attention. Both practitioners and theoreticians of the media frame the interview situation in contractual and representational terms. The concentration is on the before and after. The emotional dynamics of what happens inside the interview itself are barely discussed. This paper will suggest that journalists who specialise in working with trauma develop a particular approach to listening that stands in contrast to a general professional orientation towards information extraction that tends to view emotion as the same as other forms of data.
British Journalism Review
Studies in Media and Communications, 2012
No genre of news reporting generates the same pressures as covering trauma. Multiple casualty inc... more No genre of news reporting generates the same pressures as covering trauma. Multiple casualty incidents, such as the school shootings that are the subject of this volume, challenge reporters to find words for the results of actions that might more naturally be described as unspeakable. To paraphrase MacDuff's reactions to the murder at the court of MacBeth in Shakespeare's play, what take place in the familiar, supposedly safe and mundane settings of school classrooms and corridors are horrors that neither ‘heart nor tongue can conceive of’. For journalists such incidents raise acute ethical and practical dilemmas about how to approach and interview victims and survivors in ways that are less likely to add unnecessarily to their distress. Then there are the news choices which have to be made: how does one produce narratives that are informative and compelling but that avoid playing into the agendas of the perpetrators or inspiring copycat behaviour? And on top of that – what responsibilities do news editors owe the public in assisting them to digest information which may tear through their assumptions that the world is, for the most part, a stable and orderly place?
Media, Culture & Society, 2011
This article reports on a study which aimed to assess how much attention journalism training and ... more This article reports on a study which aimed to assess how much attention journalism training and practice currently pay to the idea of emotional literacy, to explore what need news journalists and current affairs filmmakers see for closer evaluation of the emotional dimensions of their work, and to outline a strategy for enhancing emotional literacy in journalism training. While focused on encounters with traumatic situations, the research also addressed emotional aspects of more mundane reporting. This wider agenda links to political and theoretical questions about the contributions of news to the ‘emotional public sphere’, and more broadly to the diverse collection of cultural trends and phenomena concerned with acknowledging, understanding and managing emotions in diverse spheres of life — the ‘affective turn’. The findings of this interview-based study are discussed under the headings of journalists’ relations with sources, colleagues and audiences. They indicate a broad and fun...
Viele Journalisten werden in ihrer Arbeit mit Traumata verschiedenster Art konfrontiert. Bis heut... more Viele Journalisten werden in ihrer Arbeit mit Traumata verschiedenster Art konfrontiert. Bis heute verhindern die vorherrschenden Einstellungen und Selbstbilder im Journalismus jedoch, offen uber die mit der Arbeit verbundenen Belastungen und ihre moglichen psychischen Folgen zu diskutieren. Dieser Beitrag zeigt, wie die BBC den Trauma-Risk-Management-Ansatz (TRiM), der ursprunglich von einem Spezialkommando der britischen Royal Marines entwickelt und eingesetzt wurde, auf den Medienbereich ubertragen hat. Zwischen Militar und Journalismus lassen sich bestimmte Analogien herstellen, weshalb es sinnvoll ist, die Ansatze zur Traumabewaltigung des einen Bereiches auf ihre Anwendbarkeit im anderen Bereich hin zu uberprufen. Insbesondere das sogenannte »peer-monitoring« hat sich als uberaus erfolgreiche Methode erwiesen, um das Stigma, das bis heute nahezu unweigerlich damit verbunden ist, wenn ein Mensch in Folge von traumatischem Stress erkrankt, zu reduzieren.
Digital Journalism
The political and media rhetoric of the pandemic is that of conflict and a call to arms in face o... more The political and media rhetoric of the pandemic is that of conflict and a call to arms in face of a hidden enemy. But this is not a distant war where journalists are parachuted in to report on the...
Networking Knowledge: Journal of the MeCCSA Postgraduate Network
Journalists interview people; it is fundamental to their trade. And yet interviewing is given ver... more Journalists interview people; it is fundamental to their trade. And yet interviewing is given very little attention. Both practitioners and theoreticians of the media frame the interview situation in contractual and representational terms. The concentration is on the before and after. The emotional dynamics of what happens inside the interview itself are barely discussed. This paper will suggest that journalists who specialise in working with trauma develop a particular approach to listening that stands in contrast to a general professional orientation towards information extraction that tends to view emotion as the same as other forms of data.
British Journalism Review
Studies in Media and Communications, 2012
No genre of news reporting generates the same pressures as covering trauma. Multiple casualty inc... more No genre of news reporting generates the same pressures as covering trauma. Multiple casualty incidents, such as the school shootings that are the subject of this volume, challenge reporters to find words for the results of actions that might more naturally be described as unspeakable. To paraphrase MacDuff's reactions to the murder at the court of MacBeth in Shakespeare's play, what take place in the familiar, supposedly safe and mundane settings of school classrooms and corridors are horrors that neither ‘heart nor tongue can conceive of’. For journalists such incidents raise acute ethical and practical dilemmas about how to approach and interview victims and survivors in ways that are less likely to add unnecessarily to their distress. Then there are the news choices which have to be made: how does one produce narratives that are informative and compelling but that avoid playing into the agendas of the perpetrators or inspiring copycat behaviour? And on top of that – what responsibilities do news editors owe the public in assisting them to digest information which may tear through their assumptions that the world is, for the most part, a stable and orderly place?
Media, Culture & Society, 2011
This article reports on a study which aimed to assess how much attention journalism training and ... more This article reports on a study which aimed to assess how much attention journalism training and practice currently pay to the idea of emotional literacy, to explore what need news journalists and current affairs filmmakers see for closer evaluation of the emotional dimensions of their work, and to outline a strategy for enhancing emotional literacy in journalism training. While focused on encounters with traumatic situations, the research also addressed emotional aspects of more mundane reporting. This wider agenda links to political and theoretical questions about the contributions of news to the ‘emotional public sphere’, and more broadly to the diverse collection of cultural trends and phenomena concerned with acknowledging, understanding and managing emotions in diverse spheres of life — the ‘affective turn’. The findings of this interview-based study are discussed under the headings of journalists’ relations with sources, colleagues and audiences. They indicate a broad and fun...