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> The Centre for Public Communication Research, Bournemouth Media
> School, Bournemouth University, and the Tavistock and Portman NHS
> Trust invite you to join our coming seminar on “Emotional news:
> Reporting trauma and the anxious public”.
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> Journalism is often ideally thought of as a profession built on
> objectivity and truth. Journalists traditionally have not considered
> the emotional dimensions of their work. However, as attention paid to
> the emotions in many professions grows, the idea that journalism
> should be an emotion-free zone is becoming less sustainable.
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> In the seminar, Mark Brayne, Dart Centre for Journalism and Trauma and
> former BBC and Reuters correspondent, will discuss what journalism now
> needs to learn from the world of trauma therapy and research.
> Professor Barry Richards, Bournemouth University, will take up the
> role of journalism in the emotional framing of news content.
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> Date: Thursday, 17 November 2005, 6-8pm
> Venue: The Tavistock Centre, 120 Belsize Lane, London NW3 6BA
> Admission free.
>
> To book a place contact:
> Marie Pearlman
> Tel: 020 8938 2228
> Email: [log in to unmask]
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> For more information, please see below.
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> The Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust
> Tavistock Policy Seminars
> “Connecting Public Policy and Human Relationships”
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> In collaboration with the Centre for Public Communication Research,
> Bournemouth Media School, Bournemouth University:
> Emotional news: Reporting trauma and the anxious public
>
> Presenters
> Mark Brayne, Dart Centre for Journalism and Trauma
> Professor Barry Richards, Bournemouth University
>
> Date: Thursday, 17 November 2005, 6 - 8pm
> Venue: The Tavistock Centre, Lecture Theatre
>
> Journalism is often ideally thought of as a profession built on
> objectivity and truth, practised by people who are able to separate
> their reporting from any emotional responses to their subject matter.
> This has meant that journalists traditionally have not considered the
> emotional dimensions of their work, neither its obvious toll on the
> mental health of some nor the role that emotions play in the
> political, social and economic developments of our times. But the idea
> that journalism should be somehow an emotion-free zone is becoming
> less sustainable, as the attention paid to the emotions in many
> professions grows, and as the contribution of journalists to the
> public sphere comes under increasing scrutiny.
>
> A number of major news organisations and journalism training
> establishments, especially in the UK and the US, have begun to
> challenge the traditional “macho” journalistic culture, with training
> courses in the role in journalism of trauma and emotions. The BBC and
> Reuters for example now have formal programmes to introduce managers
> and editors to trauma and its effect. In this, they are working
> closely with the US-based Dart Centre for Journalism and Trauma, whose
> European Director Mark Brayne, a prominent former BBC and Reuters
> Correspondent and now a practising psychotherapist, will introduce the
> Centre's work and the evening's discussion of what journalism now
> needs, urgently, to learn from the world of trauma therapy and
> research.
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> The role of journalism in the emotional framing of news content will
> be taken up by Barry Richards of Bournemouth Media School. In
> mediating feelings about world events and about political institutions
> and actors to their readers and audiences, journalists are performing
> a kind of emotional labour which is a crucial determinant of the
> quality of debate and understanding in the public sphere. As the
> affective dimensions of democracy in a 'therapeutic' culture become
> more clearly recognised, the responsibility of journalists in the
> enhancement of democratic process can be seen as ever more important.
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> Mark Brayne is European Director of the Dart Centre for Journalism and
> Trauma and served for 30 years as foreign correspondent and senior
> editor for Reuters and the BBC World Service. He left BBC staff after
> 25 years service in November 2003 to pursue his work as a
> psychotherapist, and as trainer and consultant in the field of
> journalism and trauma. This now includes working with the BBC on a new
> programme of trauma training and support for journalists and
> programme-makers across the Corporation.
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> Barry Richards is Professor of Public Communication and Director of
> the Centre for Public Communication Research in the Bournemouth Media
> School at Bournemouth University. A clinical psychologist by original
> training, and formerly Professor of Human Relations at the University
> of East London, he has written extensively on psychological aspects of
> politics and culture. He is currently working on a study of the
> management of public fears in relation to terrorism and other
> contemporary risks.
>
> Programme
> Seminars will begin at 6pm with the main presentations. There will be
> a short break for refreshments at 6.45pm after which the seminar will
> resume with an open dialogue and end with brief commentaries from the
> speakers.
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> Contact
> Marie Pearlman
> The Tavistock Centre
> The Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust
> 120 Belsize Lane, London NW3 5BA
> Tel: 020 8938 2228
> email: [log in to unmask]
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