For more ona sustainable future for journalism read Chris Elliott's summary of the findings of the UK's Cairncross Review and the elements of the EJN's submission that were included.
Ethics Through The Lens: Covering The Drug War In The Philippines
In the sixth of our series of “Ethics in the News” events at the Frontline Club, the EJN teamed up with the Photo Ethics Centre to hold a discussion with award-winning Filipino photojournalist Raffy Lerma on Monday 25 February 2019.
Hosted by the chair of the Ethical Journalists Network Dorothy Byrne (Head of Channel 4 News and Current Affairs), we will also heard from Olivier Sarbil and James Jones the makers of “On The President’s Orders“, a film which documents President Duterte’s bloody campaign against drug dealers and addicts in the Philippines, told with unprecedented and intimate access to both sides of the war – the Manila police, and an ordinary family from the slum.
Libyan journalists call for new legislation to defend independent journalism
Libyan journalists have called for new legislation to defend independent journalism and freedom of expression in their deeply divided country.
Leading broadcasters, journalists and delegates from journalism schools were among those who heard from Pierre Francois Docquir, of Article 19 and Chris Elliott, the director of the EJN during two days of debate in Tunis on the weekend of 9 and 10 February.
Impacts of artificial intelligence development on human rights, democracy and the rule of law
The EJN's founder and president,Aidan White, spoke on a panel on AI and human rights at a Council of Europe event in Helsinki this week. Aidan's session explored "the impacts of AI-powered techniques on the access to and exercise of the human rights enshrined in the European Convention, such as privacy and the freedom of expression."
- Mapping artificial intelligence strategies in Europe: a new report by Access Now (Access Now)
- You Give Apps Sensitive Personal Information. Then They Tell Facebook. (WSJ)
- How to catch a catfisher (Guardian)
PLATFORMS & SOCIAL MEDIA
- Why Tech Platforms Need to Be Built on Journalistic Values (Nieman Labs)
- THE TRAUMA FLOOR: The secret lives of Facebook moderators in America (The Verge)- Facebook removes Tommy Robinson's page and Instagram profile over alleged 'hate speech' (Press Gazette)
- Anti-vaxx propaganda has gone viral on Facebook. Pinterest has a cure (Guardian)
- The Imperfect truth about finding facts in a world of fakes (WIRED)
- Want to build trust with readers? Try adding a box that explains the story process (Nieman Labs)
- Poll: How does the public think journalism happens? (CJR)
- Know your reader: Tortoise listens to its audience to shape slow news agenda (Journalism)
- How can we teach objectivity in a post-truth era? (New Statesman)
- Verification tools: Placing trust in Humans, Robots or both of them? (GEN)
GLOBAL MEDIA ETHICS NEWS
AFRICA
SOUTH AFRICA: Pippa Green appointed as the new Press Ombud (Mail & Guardian)
AMERICAS
HAITI/US: Must aid be an ethical dilemma? (CJR) MEXICO: 'There is no free press': Media freedom in Mexico (DW) US: I became part of our story on racist images in college yearbooks. I'm here to apologize for publishing that photo (USA Today) US: The editor of an Alabama newspaper is calling for the return of the Ku Klux Klan's infamous night rides (CNN) US: New York Times Publisher A.G. Sulzberger responded to President Trump’s continued attacks on a free press (NYT)
ASIA
AUSTRALIA: News Corp columnists declare Cardinal Pell innocent and 'a scapegoat' (Guardian) AUSTRALIA: Up to 100 journalists accused of breaking Pell suppression order face possible jail terms (Guardian) INDIA: "Business models thriving on hate of any kind are reprehensible" (Editors Guild of India) INDIA: ‘No image can be taken on face value’: Fake photos flood social media after a terrorist attack in India (Poynter) INDIA: An important thread for 25 stories on #PulwamaAttack. Important lessons for everyone for fact checkers, platforms like GoogleIndia, Facebook and TwitterIndia, policymakers, researchers - on the depths of fake news(BOOM FactCheck)
- Reporters in the Field - The grant for your cross-border research (Robert Bosch Stiftung)
- Reporting on Vulnerable Children in Care (Thomson Reuters Foundation)
- Call for proposals: Media and Information Literacy for Civil Society Organisations in 5 Western Balkan Countries (SEENPM)
- Global Conference: Call for Research Papers/Abstracts (GIJN)
ETHICAL JOURNALISM NETWORK RESOURCES
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