ABSTRACT

This paper contributes to the scholarship on contemporary journalism practices in today's fast-changing media landscape, by focusing on graphic reportage, an emergent journalistic approach that relies on the medium of drawn comics. There has been much recent scholarship on this drawn form of journalism in the field of English literature. Yet there has been surprisingly little published on graphic reportage in the field of journalism studies. In order to address this gap, this paper presents some of the key the findings of a journalism practice-based research project that involved the making of an original work of graphic reportage based on fieldwork in a camp for Haitians displaced by the 2010 earthquake in Haiti. Reflecting critically on her own process of researching, writing, illustrating and designing this graphic project, the author shows that graphic reportage can help to explore the perspectives of people like displaced Haitians whose perspectives are often neglected in Western media. Discussing specific examples from this work of graphic reportage, the paper also demonstrates that this drawn form can be used to ethically visually represent such vulnerable sources in ways that would be more difficult if not impossible in more standard visual media forms.

摘要

本文通过关注图形报告文学，一种依赖于漫画媒介的新兴新闻方法，为当今瞬息万变的媒体环境中的当代新闻实践做出了贡献。在英国文学领域，最近有很多关于这种新闻形式的学术研究。然而，令人惊讶的是，在新闻研究领域发表的关于图形报告文学的文章很少。为了弥补这一差距，本文介绍了一个基于新闻实践的研究项目的一些关键发现，该项目涉及根据在 2010 年海地地震中流离失所的海地人营地的实地调查制作原创图形报道作品. 批判性地反思她自己研究、写作、说明和设计这个图形项目的过程，作者表明，图文报道有助于探索像流离失所的海地人这样的人的观点，他们的观点经常被西方媒体忽视。通过讨论这项图形报告文学作品中的具体示例，该论文还表明，这种绘制的形式可用于在道德上以视觉方式代表这些易受攻击的来源，而在更标准的视觉媒体形式中，如果不是不可能的话，这将更加困难。