Ethical Journalism News
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| The EJN has been busy in Egypt this year and with good reason. Journalism in Cairo has been under intense government pressure over the past year since the expulsion of President Morsi and the crackdown on his Muslim Brotherhood supporters. Critics of the government and anyone in media suspected of supporting the Brotherhood has been isolated and removed, creating an unprecedented atmosphere of intimidation for independent journalism.
Despite all of this, independent journalism is fighting back. On June 16 the EJN Director joined more than 100 editors and executives in Cairo at a ground-breaking meeting to launch the independent Egyptian Editors Association.
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| For years now, advocates of new forms of journalism have been blasting away at impartiality as a hopeless goal. Yet impartial journalism is remarkably resilient, despite the mocking and stereotyping it has endured. There’s plenty of room for other models, but it’s worth recognizing the value impartiality delivers.
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| As commercial enterprise, media organizations could reduce all news and public affairs sections and operate primarily for recreation and variety, food, fashion and lifestyle, and entertainment news which has already expanded its share of news schedules.
But the press is also a social and political institution. It has been called the fourth pillar of democary. The obligation then is to keep the news as separate enclave with a specific function in the world of media. Set this important function apart from other media purposes and protect it from the ratings game; just as the Constitution protects its freedom. Clearly, the protection of press freedom is not based on the business of making money.The basis for such protection is the public’s need to know and a democracy’s need for an informed citizenry. (via CMFR) |
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| New York Times foreign correspondent Rod Nordland apologized to Iraqi journalists on Monday after claiming in a series of tweets this past weekend that an Iraqi army official had given cash payments to members of the press.
Nordland stood by his allegation that several Iraqi journalists accepted envelopes with cash following Saturday’s news conference with army spokesman Lt. Gen. Qassim Atta. But in a statement, Nordland emphasized that he didn’t intend to lump all Iraqi journalists together. (via The Huffington Post) |
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| Responding to a flood of anti-Ukraine propaganda in the Russian mass media, the website TJournal has temporarily hidden a service that aggregates news stories trending on the RuNet. (via Global Voices) |
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| After eight months of sensational revelations during the phone-hacking trial we have at least three devastating insights into the operations of the UK arm of a global media group, but also the revelations highlight broader policy concerns about what to do in the future to constrain the abuse of power demonstrated by Rupert Murdoch’s UK newspaper group. (via Media Reform Coalition) |
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| In an advertising-driven world where media organizations increasingly identify themselves as businesses first, the ethics line has become blurry in favor of the bottom line. Ethics are eroding fast and risk disappearing or becoming a remote memory in the minds of older generations. There was a time in history when media professionals spoke of a complete separation between “sales and editorial” in the same tone as the separation of “church and state”. (via Entrepreneur Middle East) |
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