List of Titles

Authors: Dugmore, Harry
Date: 2015
Subjects: To be catalogued
Language: English
Type: text , report
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/453379 , vital:75249 , ISBN , https://doi.org/10.17159/assaf/0022
Description: Although two-thirds of countries in the world no longer outlaw lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) relationships, same-sex relationships are still illegal in 76 countries. In the recent past, new laws have been passed in Russia, India, Nigeria, Burundi, Cameroon and Uganda and are being contemplated in other countries to further prohibit same-sex relationships or the so-called ‘promotion of homosexuality’. There is evidence that such new laws precipitate negative consequences not just for LGBTI persons and communities, but also for societies as a whole, including the rapid reversal of key public health gains, particularly in terms of HIV and AIDS and other sexual health programmes, increases in levels of social violence, some evidence of reduced economic growth, and the diversion of attention from sexual and other violence against women and children.
Full Text:
Date Issued: 2015

Authors: Dugmore, Harry
Date: 2015
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/143849 , vital:38288 , https://ischp.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/ischp_2015_abstract_booklet.pdf
Description: This paper compares key moments in the debates about LGBT rights, and the media coverage related to these key moments, in South Africa, Uganda and the USA. No country permitted same-sex marriage by the turn of millennium in 2000. Today, 15 countries do, as do two-thirds of states in the USA. By contrast, in some African countries, legislative regimes and social attitudes are shifting retrogressively, with the introduction of punitive laws against both ‘homosexual acts’ and the ‘promotion’ of same-sex relationships. While the drivers of progressive shifts in liberal democracies - such as LGBT activism, the impact of AIDS, and changes in the stances of professional health organisations - have also been at least partially present in many African countries, it is puzzling why these factors have not prevented an increase in repression in many African countries. As this paper outlines, the new laws have had immediate and dire impacts on the health of LGBT communities in the affected countries.
Full Text:
Date Issued: 2015

Authors: Dugmore, Harry
Date: 2014
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/158620 , vital:40212 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC159484
Description: Health journalism is a complicated beat. The science is easy to get wrong, and the tone and tenor of the reporting needs careful attention. Coverage of obesity is even more fraught. Early insights from an on-going research project by the Discovery Centre for Health Journalism suggests that not only is most journalism about obesity not helping - some reporting may inadvertently be making the situation worse. This needs to change. There is too much at stake for journalism about food, fat and fitness to be anything less than impactful and effective.
Full Text:
Date Issued: 2014

Authors: Dugmore, Harry , Smith, Jade
Date: 2013
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/158564 , vital:40207 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC141577
Description: As a centre with a brief to encourage "more and better" health journalism in South Africa, we've had to think hard about definitional issues and about balancing subjective and objective gauges of quality. We've developed an initial appraisal of health journalism, locally and internationally, and we've created a normative framework that we hope will enable journalists and educators to have better discussions about what is meant by quality in health journalism. This framework will hopefully inform what kind of journalism education - degrees, short courses, topic guides, symposia - might promote higher levels of quality in reporting on medical science.
Full Text:
Date Issued: 2013

Authors: Dugmore, Harry
Date: 2011
Subjects: To be catalogued
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/454636 , vital:75361 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC135803
Description: Health journalists are not immune from pressures to break great stories before the opposition does and, in the digital age, all stories have to be entertaining and enticing to be read. So how do we think about the eth-ics of health journalism in the 21st century? Does health journalism, because it is about health, a special case, require different ethics to that of other subjects covered by journalists?
Full Text:
Date Issued: 2011

Authors: Dugmore, Harry
Date: 2010
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/159412 , vital:40295 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC139343
Description: Newspapers everywhere are being forced to rethink their role as simply providers of general news of the day. As people can access much more immediate information and news online, from a wide variety of sources, and get to "hear about things" from their friends and contacts through Facebook, Twitter and other "social media", local papers are having to find better ways to provide immediate and more useful information and news.
Full Text:
Date Issued: 2010

Authors: Dugmore, Harry
Date: 2009
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/159389 , vital:40293 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC139935
Description: In a context of declining public participation, can mobile phone technology and 'new media' be used to involve more people in local decision-making, asks Harry Dug more in this exploration of the implications of mobile communication on journalism in the developing world.
Full Text:
Date Issued: 2009

Authors: Dugmore, Harry
Date: 2009
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/159377 , vital:40292 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC139912
Description: The use of mobile phone technology in recent African elections has empowered citizens, allowing them to put in place the checks and balances needed to make elections freer and fairer in Africa - and elsewhere in the world, writes Harry Dugmore.
Full Text:
Date Issued: 2009

Showing items 1 - 8 of 8