Grace Millane : "She should have been safe here"
Appleyard, Katelyn
Grace Millane : "She should have been safe here" Katelyn Appleyard and Shirley J. Julich - Aotearoa New Zealand Association of Social Workers, 2024 - Aotearoa New Zealand Social Work .
Aotearoa New Zealand Social Work, 2024, 36(1), 32 - 44
INTRODUCTION: This research examined how news media framed the prosecution of the murder of Grace Millane and whether it was consistent with journalists’ guidelines for reporting violence against women (VAW). Previous literature on media reporting of VAW has found that victims and perpetrators of VAW were othered to obscure them from the context of the larger social issue that VAW presents and that victims were blamed for their assaults.
APPROACH: Employing a singular case study research design, we conducted a thematic analysis of the documents that reported on the prosecution of the murder of Grace Millane. Some 25 articles were extracted from the Newztext database, an archive of Aotearoa New Zealand newspaper sources. Five themes were generated from the texts and were compared to previous literature about news media reporting on VAW.
CONCLUSIONS: This study concluded that journalist guidelines, although available, do not seem to be widely used. This has led to victim blaming and minimising sexual violence in the news media. (Authors' abstract). Record #8629
2463-4131
FEMICIDE
GUIDELINES
HOMICIDE
MEDIA
SEXUAL VIOLENCE
NEW ZEALAND
Grace Millane : "She should have been safe here" Katelyn Appleyard and Shirley J. Julich - Aotearoa New Zealand Association of Social Workers, 2024 - Aotearoa New Zealand Social Work .
Aotearoa New Zealand Social Work, 2024, 36(1), 32 - 44
INTRODUCTION: This research examined how news media framed the prosecution of the murder of Grace Millane and whether it was consistent with journalists’ guidelines for reporting violence against women (VAW). Previous literature on media reporting of VAW has found that victims and perpetrators of VAW were othered to obscure them from the context of the larger social issue that VAW presents and that victims were blamed for their assaults.
APPROACH: Employing a singular case study research design, we conducted a thematic analysis of the documents that reported on the prosecution of the murder of Grace Millane. Some 25 articles were extracted from the Newztext database, an archive of Aotearoa New Zealand newspaper sources. Five themes were generated from the texts and were compared to previous literature about news media reporting on VAW.
CONCLUSIONS: This study concluded that journalist guidelines, although available, do not seem to be widely used. This has led to victim blaming and minimising sexual violence in the news media. (Authors' abstract). Record #8629
2463-4131
FEMICIDE
GUIDELINES
HOMICIDE
MEDIA
SEXUAL VIOLENCE
NEW ZEALAND