Journalists play an important role in the realization and protection of human rights worldwide, framing and shaping the public’s understanding of issues. In the United States, however, studies show that media coverage of human rights is inadequate and frequently inaccurate, with US journalists typically framing human rights as an exclusively international issue. This study helps to explain why this is the case through an examination of the human rights content of journalism education in the United States. Journalism education is dominated by undergraduate programs in the United States, yet data from this study show that human rights education is not part of journalism training programs at the undergraduate level (at the top 10 schools, ranked according to the number of graduates, there are no human rights courses for journalism majors) and is not a focus of most graduate-level training programs. Those schools that do teach human rights do so largely with a focus on events and violations abroad. The fact that journalists are not educated about international human rights law and standards or taught to view events through a human rights lens means that crucial opportunities are missed to frame topics as human rights issues, to inform the public, and to hold governments and other human rights violators accountable.

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无知报道：美国新闻教育中缺乏人权

记者在世界范围内实现和保护人权、构建和塑造公众对问题的理解方面发挥着重要作用。然而，在美国，研究表明媒体对人权的报道不足且经常不准确，美国记者通常将人权视为一个完全国际问题。本研究通过对美国新闻教育的人权内容的考察，有助于解释为什么会出现这种情况。在美国，新闻教育以本科课程为主，但本次研究的数据显示，人权教育不属于本科阶段的新闻培训课程（排名前10的学校，按毕业生人数排名，新闻专业没有人权课程），也不是大多数研究生级别的培训计划的重点。那些教授人权的学校主要关注国外的事件和侵权行为。记者没有接受过国际人权法和标准的教育，也没有接受过从人权角度看待事件的教育，这意味着他们错过了将话题定为人权问题、向公众通报以及让政府和其他人侵权者承担责任。