Inside Ethics Blog

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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

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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

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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. [..]

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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

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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

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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

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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. [..]

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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

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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

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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. [..]

Chris Elliott, City University London, complaints, corrections, journalism, readers’ editor, self regulation, self-regulation, The Guardian

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