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Peace Journalism: at least don't make matters worse
with Steven Youngblood
“Peace journalism is when reporters and editors make choices that create an atmosphere conducive to peace. Do the words we use help the reader understand the story or are they used in a manner that is sensational or inflammatory? Are we telling the story in a way that increases divisiveness and polarization, that increases partisan and sectarian divides?”
-- Steven Youngblood on Making Peace Visible
EPISODE NOTES
On Making Peace Visible, we cover national peace processes like the one unfolding in Colombia. But we also interview journalists who’ve made their careers covering violent conflict. So what’s the connecting thread? This episode gets at that question– looking through the lens of the practice of Peace Journalism.
Guest Steven Youngblood is a professor of communications and peace studies at Park University in Parkville, Missouri, and the founding director of the Center for Global Peace Journalism there. He has organized and taught peace journalism seminars, and workshops in over 30 countries and territories. Steven is the editor of The Peace Journalist magazine, and an advisor to the initiative behind this podcast - the War Stories Peace Stories Project.
Also, check out Steven’s book Peace Journalism Principles and Practices