ABSTRACT
In this chapter, we ask whether ‘humanitarian journalism’ is a field-in-the-making. Humanitarian journalists’ lack of competition, shared identity and, in many cases, even awareness of each other leads us to conclude that it is not. We also show that, despite the influential role played by journalistic intermediaries, such as the Pulitzer Centre on Crisis Reporting and One World Media, they do not bring stability and order to a field of humanitarian journalism. This discussion also allows us to illustrate the differences between humanitarian journalists’ norms and practices and those operating within news outlets which remain firmly within the journalistic field, such as Al Jazeera English and the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
