News Selection in TRNC Media and Peace Journalism

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News Selection in TRNC Mediaand Peace Journalism

• Research Assistant
• Metin ERSOY

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Introduction

• In this study try to answer two basic questions
• What is the news selection and gatekeeping
  process in Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus
  media?
• How the TRNC media report the conflict news and
  how much they obey the peace journalism rules?

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Topics of Discussion

• News selection and gatekeeping
• Peace Journalism

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Gatekeeping Theory

• In 1947 Kurt Lewin first used the Gatekeeping
  term.
• David Manning White was first applier of Lewins
  gatekeeper theory in communication field.

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News Selection in TRNC media

• 1- Most of the editors news criteria is same.
  Generally, Cyprus problem oriented stories,
  accident, robbery and crime stories are important
  for Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus print
  media editors.
• 2- Almost all of them are using the Turkish News
  Agency news bulletin.

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News Selection in TRNC media

• 3- Only KIBRIS newspaper can has a chance to play
  on newspaper pages.
• 4- Editors and owners of the newspapers decided
  to the news selection.
• 5- Speech is more important than title of the
  news source.

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News Selection in TRNC media

• TRNC print media news selection is subjective,
  editors in TRNC print media are selecting the
  news according to their newspaper publishing
  policy, and editors are using the Turkish News
  Agency Cyprus news bulletin and editors to
  perpetuate the newspaper owners policies.

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Peace Journalism

• Johan Galtung, first began using the term Peace
  Journalism in the 1970s.
• Peace journalism as a broader, fairer and more
  accurate way of framing stories, drawing on the
  insights of conflict analysis and transformation
  (McGoldrick and Lynch 2000 pp. 10-3).
• Peace non-violence creativity

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Peace Journalism in TRNC Media

• How the TRNC media report conflict news?
• How much they obey peace journalism rules and
  ethics?

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Peace Journalism in TRNC

• 1- TRNC news writing journalists try and display
  the unseen effects of conflict on the society.
• 2- Journalist should just report the facts or
  events.

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Peace Journalism in TRNC

• 3- A journalist should take on an active role in
  trying to bring the people within conflict areas
  together and maintaining peace
• 4- Do not to transmit only the peace messages of
  the elite group.
• 5- TRNC journalists tend to find out who had
  metaphorically thrown the first stone.

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Peace Journalism in TRNC

• 76.6 percent of journalists agree with the peace
  journalism oriented statements.
• Female journalists, older journalists,
  experienced journalists, and high-educated
  journalists are more peace journalism oriented
  than male journalists, younger journalists,
  inexperienced journalists, and low-educated
  journalists.

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Weaknesses of Peace Journalism

• Journalists have different PEACE definition.
• Ownership status
• Ideological and historical factors
• State powers
• Bad news is good news
• Financial problem
• Both conflict sides media have to use

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More information about Peace Journalism

• You can get more information form Internet
• http//www.transcend.org/
• Peace Journalism
• http//www.afn.org/afn49740/pec.html
• Peace Article