PREVENTIVE JOURNALISM

what is preventive journalism?

It is a journalistic discipline that aims to analyze crises and conflicts from an integral point of view, from its origins to its outbreak and subsequent repercussions.

that seeks preventive journalism?

WHAT APPROACH IS PREVENTIVE JOURNALISM?

• supposes a factor criticism.
• considered by adherents.
• focuses on decontextualized news.
• focuses on belligerent actors.

FUNCTIONS OF PREVENTIVE JOURNALISM

• Anticipate events that could lead to conflict.
• Report on the development of these situations paying special attention to the efforts being made.
• Track events after completion.

Analysis
Its creation responds, in the current global context, to the need to practice a different style of journalism by proposing a novel way of preparing, ordering and disseminating information related to international conflicts and crises in a way that contributes to the peaceful resolution of them. and channeling awareness processes that prevent similar scenarios in the future.

INVESTIGATION OBJECTIVES

• Promote the interest and knowledge of the population.
• Promote the existence of spaces within the media.
• to the creation of specific means of communication dealing, from the perspective of our discipline, with issues related to conflicts.
• Encourage a conscious and critical attitude with the way in which conflict is reported.
• Collaborate with different educational fields, both formal and non-formal, to improve the quality of information.

PREVENTIVE JOURNALISM

PANDEMIC VS NEWS

Science does not work with absolute truths, but with processes and probabilities, which are concepts difficult to turn into news.

Journalists are interested in knowing whether or not there will be a pandemic.

HOW TO PREVENT THE PUBLICATION OF FALSE

How to avoid.

• Sources should be diversified and new versions sought.
• It is important to always resort to divergent opinions.
• Consult sources recognized in the verified medium.
• The practice of preventive journalism goes far beyond a simple disclosure of hygiene measures to avoid infection.
• Prevention is broad and strategic.

NERKELEY CONVERSATION

Doing preventive journalism means understanding first to disclose later, always collate technical information, disclose possible solutions and take into account at all times the different sectors involved.

Understand first to disclose later

Understand first to disclose later.

The main task of the media and journalists, in a circumstance like this, is to translate the most relevant technical information into a language accessible to the public, so that it is understandable to readers.

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Disclose possible solutions.


not only the inventory of the crisis should be disclosed (figures of deceased or sick, economic losses and difficulties in coping with the disease), but also positive data should be offered, capable of motivating the population to plant facing the epidemic. .

Take into account different sectors

In the midst of a crisis, this issue may seem superfluous to the Minister of Health, but it is a just concern for poultry farmers to know how they will be compensated for the birds that have to be slaughtered. Without the collaboration of producers, the actual number of infected birds can be hidden from health authorities. And dead birds may not be given the safest possible destination.

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