什么是advocacy journalism?

台湾教育研究院的学术词典使用下面的表述，“倡议式新闻学”或者“倡议新闻”相对妥当。以下文章摘录仅供参考。

然而，調整報導方針並非上上之策，民眾對媒體的認識才是重點。身為一名明智的讀者或用戶，實在有必要分辨偏袒（biased）與倡議（advocacy）的分別，前者是刻意隱瞞或扭曲事實來誤導讀者的判斷，從而讓某方從中得益；後者則是以事實證據來論證立場，目的是毫不迴避地幫助讀者看清真相，同時根據某些價值觀，例如人權、平等與透明施政來進行判斷。

另類媒介在力言社會責任論的新聞學中，是一種特權，它以公開表態贊成方式（是「擁護新聞學」，advocacy journalism），以及作對做法，來替代客觀理念。它的作風是強調第一人稱，參與其事者的現身說法（eyewitness accounts），重用小型報（tabloid newspapers）之大眾通俗路線，使用「通俗激化」（radical popular）的報導風格，有志一同（collective）不守官僚層級制度的組織形式。
它又避開了專業化或行業界別，而在履行著一種獨一無二、激進的「市民新聞學」（civic journalism）。

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Advocacy journalism is a genre of journalism that intentionally and transparently adopts a non-objective viewpoint, usually for some social or political purpose. Because it is intended to be factual, it is distinguished from propaganda. It is also distinct from instances of media bias and failures of objectivity in media outlets, since the bias is intended.

Traditionally, advocacy and criticism are restricted to editorial and op-ed pages, which are clearly distinguished in the publication and in the organization's internal structure. News reports are intended to be objective and unbiased. In contrast, advocacy journalists have an opinion about the story they are writing. For example, that political corruption should be punished, that more environmentally friendly practices should be adopted by consumers, or that a government policy will be harmful to business interests and should not be adopted. This may be evident in small ways, such as tone or facial expression, or large ways, such as the selection of facts and opinions presented.

Some advocacy journalists reject that the traditional ideal of objectivity is possible in practice, either generally, or due to the presence of corporate sponsors in advertising. Some feel that the public interest is better served by a diversity of media outlets with a variety of transparent points of view, or that advocacy journalism serves a similar role to muckrakersor whistleblowers.

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