13 January 2016
By Chris Elliot E very time Islamic State releases a video, editors are acutely aware that they are being invited to a Danse Macabre. [..]
Chris Elliott, ISIS, propaganda, The Guardian, video
Inside Ethics Blog
A Year on from Charlie, Religious intolerance and the challenge of hate-speech remain
07 January 2016
A year after the terrorist attack on Charlie Hebdo , in which 12 people were killed, most of them journalists, the satirical magazine is still a source of confusion and controversy over free speech rights. [..]
Anti-Semitism, blasphemy, Charlie Hebdo, Donald Trump, France, Gary Younge, hate speech, Jyllands Posten, L’Osservatore Romano, Paris, Pope Francis, religion, The Guardian, The Vatican
04 January 2016
This article is part of an international report on media and the global migration and refugee crisis, issued to coincide with International Migrants Day on 18 December 2015. [..]
Inside Ethics Blog
The EJN Year in Focus: Terrorism, Hate-speech, the Refugee Crisis, and Looking Forward to 2016
21 December 2015
Aidan White It has been a testing year for journalism. It began with 10 journalists and cartoonists among those killed by terrorists in the unconscionable massacre at the offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris. [..]
Aidan White, hate speech, Media and migration, migration, refugee crisis, refugees, terrorism, turning the page of hate
17 December 2015
An international report on media and the global migration and refugee crisis, issued today to coincide with International Migrants Day (December 18), says journalists often fail to tell the full story and routinely fall into propaganda [..]
hate speech, journalism, Media and migration, media ethics, migration, refugees
15 December 2015
The Ethical Journalism Network participated in an online debate about soft censorship organised by CIMA in partnership with WAN-IFRA on December 9. [..]
advertising, censorship, CIMA, Hungary, Hungary, Mexico, Mexico, Montenegro, Self-cencorship, Serbia, Serbia, Soft Censorship, WAN-IFRA
14 December 2015
Dear Friends, The year ends on a high note with the publication of the EJN’s global review of how media have covered the migration and refugee crisis. [..]
Dorothy Byrne discusses the Head of News and Current Affairs at Channel 4 discusses ethical journalism
05 December 2015
In the second of a series of talks held at City University London in the Chair of the Board of the Ethical Journalism Network, Dorothy Byrne, discussed ethical journalism, secret filming and other issues with students and guests. [..]
Broadcast, Channel 4, City University London, Dorothy Byrne, Ethical Journalism, Ofcom, Regulation, Secret Filming, TV
Joining the European Commission's Media Literacy Expert Group on media literacy, freedom, pluralism and ethics.
03 December 2015
Debates over media literacy and how to increase it need to reach a wider audience; this was the message the Ethical Journalism's Network's director, Aidan White, brought to the European Commission's meeting of the media literacy expert group ear [..]
Aidan White, Europe, European Commission, media development, media ethics, Media Literacy, social media, UNESCO
Chris Elliott, the readers' editor at The Guardian, discusses the commercial and ethical case for self-regulation.
03 December 2015
Some newspapers opt to have readers' editors, some don't. In a lecture a City University London Chris Elliott outlines why The Guardian has had a internal ombudsman or readers's editor since 1997. [..]