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23 April 2018
MEDIA AND TRAFFICKING GUIDELINES
Last week 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.
If 2017 was the year the world finally woke up to the threat of disinformation and the way internet technologies are secretly and subtly used to undermine democracy, then 2018 is becoming the year when ethical journalism, a human instinct beyond encoding and algorithmic definition, finally gets the recognition it deserves. This issue of Ethics in the News 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.
The Council has been founded by the Ethical Journalism Network, European Broadcasting Union, Global Editors Network (GEN), Global Forum for Media Development, Online News Association and the World Editors Forum within the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA).
ICYMI: The founder of the Ethical Journalism Network, Aidan White, has stepped down as Director and has been replaced by Chris Elliott, former Readers’ Editor of The Guardian. Aidan, who founded the EJN in 2012 after he left the International Federation of Journalists where he was General Secretary for 25 years, will continue with the EJN as President, an honorary leadership role created by the EJN Board at its meeting in London on 5 April.
A CASE OF ETHICAL NEGLECT: HOW JOURNALISTS FAILED YAZIDI WOMEN
Questions on journalism ethics and trauma have shadowed journalists’ coverage of wars and conflict for a long time. Where do we draw the line between ethical and unethical journalism practices, when interviewing people suffering from trauma, let alone interviewing women taken hostage, raped and tortured?
Dr Zahera Harb is senior lecturer at City, University of London and board member of the Ethical Journalism Network.
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.
