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Áine Donnellan

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​​​​​​​Áine Donnellan is a freelance storyteller with an MA in Global Journalism from Aarhus University (Denmark)/Lebanese American University (Lebanon)/ Charles University(Czech Republic); and a BA in Film, Media and Journalism from Stirling University (Scotland)/University of Sydney (Australia), with a passion for solutions-oriented reporting and mindful journalism. She aims to create/share stories that contribute to a more harmonious co-existence for all life forms on this planet. Find out more about her work at www.ainedonnellan.com. 

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Aine Donnellan

Mindful Journalism ...

... is a values-driven approach, based on Buddhist philosophy, with the aim of having journalism operate as a public good, rather than as a money-making commodity. By combining Buddhist, introspective truth-seeking methods, with the extrospective truth-seeking methods of traditional journalism, MJ brings principles of Eastern philosophy into the pre-existing system of journalism, primarily informed by Western philosophy. The idea is that the application of mindfulness strategies will help to “add clarity, fairness, and equity to news decision-making and to offer a moral compass to journalists facing ethical dilemmas in their work” (Gunaratne et al., 2015, p. 1)


Three questions:
- In today's crumbling journalism industry, where does Mindful Journalism fit in? Could it realistically become 'a thing'? How could it break into the mainstream?
- What articles do you imagine would be published under this approach? Would mainstream papers publish them?
- Practically, how do you imagine it would manifest? What would a mindful journalist's approach to writing a story look like, from start to finish?

Three Links:

free articles, and I've included a PDF with the (so far) only book on the subject (that I'm aware of):
    https://journlaw.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/jeanzmindfuljsm2014.pdf 
    https://journlaw.com/2013/07/02/mindful-journalism-introducing-a-new-ethical-framework-for-reporting/ 
    http://communicationethics.net/sub-journals/free_article.php?id=00073 

 

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