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11 May 2018
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As part of the Ethical Journalism Network's Ethics in the News series of events at the Frontline Club the EJN will be hosting a screening of The Workers Cup, a film that takes us inside the labour camps of Qatar, on Tuesday 26 June 2018.
The screening, which is timed to coincide with the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia, will be followed by a debate - moderated by our Chairperson, Dorothy Byrne - on how media report on human rights issues connected to major sporting events.
The call for journalists covering migration in the Mediterranean has been extended. The Migration Media Award 2018 rewards journalistic excellence with EU-funded contracts of up to EUR 7000. You can apply here until May 25: http://www.migration-media-award.eu/en/
Now The American Press Institute has suggested some ways journalists can build stories that can show people the difference between good and bad journalism and create what they call organic news fluency.
LATEST FROM THE INSIDE ETHICS BLOG
CHALLENGES AND SOLUTIONS TO COPYRIGHT AND AUTHORS' RIGHTS IN AFRICA
Relentless breaches of journalists’ copyright are doing serious “economic damage” to news organizations in Ghana, editors and journalists said at a World Press Freedom Day event in Accra.
Why the “golden age” of newspapers was the exception, not the rule
Journalists pride themselves on knowing their history when it comes to politics and economics, but they are notoriously ahistorical about their own profession. They treat the idea of fair, fact-based journalism — what some call objectivity — the way the College of Cardinals treated the virgin birth, a miracle that sprang from the purest of intentions. In fact, this type of journalism was a good business decision by newspaper owners. Balanced reporting brought in more readers and more advertisers who wanted to reach those readers at the same time that it happened to better inform the public.
Historical perspective has been strikingly absent from discussions of the troubles afflicting news media today. While enlightening in its own right, such a perspective may also help us find cures.
"There’s a lack of mentorship opportunities for women in journalism", says Rachel Schallom. With more than 40 alumnae of the Poynter and the Online News Association leadership programs the Cohort Newsletter has committed to free coaching or women in journalism. Find our more here: http://www.digitalwomenleaders.com
ETHICS & GUIDELINES
ASSOCIATED PRESS - New AP Stylebook guidelines, influenced by #MeToo, hurricanes, and online polls (CJR)
PLATFORMS
- Congress just published all the Russian Facebook ads used to try and influence the 2016 election (RECODE)
- Facebook blamed for error which saw regional newspaper wrongly post photo of Sikh parade alongside story on most wanted UK sex offenders (Press Gazette)
MEDIA LITERACY
"How's this for media transparency? @teyitorg launched a platform where readers can see which claims they're fact-checking in real time" - Daniel Funk, Poynter.
In order to make their editorial more transparent teyit.orghave launched the Editor’s Desk where users can view all the claims that are verified, in progress or cannot be verified by the editors.
GLOBAL ETHICS NEWS
AMERICAS
US:Peter Hamby has written an excellent piece for Vanity Fair on how journalists should grapple with Trump’s lies and scandals. US: The managing editor for news at the Berkshire Eagle resigned from the newspaper today, citing concerns about ethics violations surrounding an associate editorial board member who is running for political office. (WAMC) US: Voices on the left are rising in the US. Why aren’t they in mainstream media? (CJR)
CAMBODIA: Phnom Penh Post sees mass staff walkout as new owner demands self-censorship (SEA Globe) ASIA: Islands of integrity in Asian media show why World Press Freedom Day still matters (South China Morning Post) PAKISTAN: Media censorship surrounds the Pashtun rights movement in Pakistan (Global Voices)
EUROPE
HUNGARY: Journalist Andras Petho on fighting Hungary’s powerful ‘propaganda machine’ (ICIJ) RUSSIA: After a week of Russian propaganda, I was questioning everything (PBS) TURKEY: Defending journalism in Turkey's climate of fear (Open Democracy) UK: Why is UK press regulation back in the headlines? (Guardian)
ETHICAL JOURNALISM NETWORK RESOURCES
The EJN's Trust in Ethical Journalism reports looks at how the communications revolution is continuing to pose more questions than answers over a public crisis of confidence, both in democracy and in sources of public information.
Can 2018 be the year when ethical journalism, a human instinct beyond encoding and algorithmic definition, finally gets the recognition it deserves?
Last month the International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD) published guidelines on Media and Trafficking in Human Beingsauthored by the Ethical Journalism Network's Aidan White.
After a screening of 'Another News Story' the Chair of the Ethical Journalism Network, Dorothy Byrne, who is the Head of News and Current Affairs at Channel 4, moderated a discussion with director / producer Orban Wallace, producer Verity Wislocki, and forced migration researcher Ahmad al-Rashid. You can also listen to the event as a podcast.
Watch the EJN's Tom Law talk about how a fake news story triggered a major geo-political crisis in May last year and the effects are still being felt across the Gulf nations on Al Jazeera's Inside Story.
Watch EJN Adviser Bill Orme address an informalhearing at the United Nationsas part of the preparatory process for an international conference for migration to adopt a global compact for safe, orderly and regular migration.