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Making News Personal<br />
human trafficking, refugees or people with AIDS, may feel uncom<strong>for</strong>table talking<br />
to the media about their lives. Covering these kinds of stories takes special skills<br />
and a commitment to very high ethical standards.<br />
This manual was born in a series of ICFJ programs teaching journalists how to<br />
better cover the issue of human trafficking, a growing problem in regions as<br />
diverse as the Balkans, the Caucasus, Southeast Asia—and the United States.<br />
Those programs, funded by the Office of Citizen Exchanges at the U.S.<br />
Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, aim to raise the<br />
level of media coverage of a problem that has received much international<br />
attention but is often ignored in the very countries where women are plucked<br />
from poverty, trafficked across borders and <strong>for</strong>ced to work as sex slaves.<br />
We hope this manual will help journalists like those participating in the trafficking<br />
programs and other journalists who cover similar issues. ICFJ’s Knight<br />
<strong>International</strong> Press Fellowship Program, funded by the John S. and James L.<br />
Knight Foundation, and the Department of State funded the writing and<br />
production of this manual.<br />
Many thanks to author David Tuller, to ICFJ Director of Training Ann Olson<br />
<strong>for</strong> editing this manual with me, to Communications Manager Debbie Hodges <strong>for</strong><br />
coordinating production, and to Jill Gallagher <strong>for</strong> the design. Thanks also to<br />
trainer Carolyn Robinson, to the Media Diversity Institute in London, to the<br />
Detroit Free Press, and to the Statistical Assessment Service <strong>for</strong> allowing us to<br />
reprint material in this manual.<br />
Finally, thanks to all the inspiring journalists around the world who struggle<br />
mightily to in<strong>for</strong>m their readers, listeners and viewers about social issues like<br />
human rights, health care, education and diversity. By bringing light to those<br />
neglected issues, they help make our societies better places to live <strong>for</strong> all<br />
citizens.<br />
Patrick Butler<br />
Vice President, Programs<br />
<strong>International</strong> <strong>Center</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>Journalists</strong><br />
<strong>International</strong> <strong>Center</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>Journalists</strong>
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