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29 November 2018
           
WATCH: Ethics and the Law: Journalists and International Criminal Tribunals
In the fourth of our series of ‘Ethics in the News’ series of events at the the Frontline Club in London, we teamed up with Global Rights Compliance to put together a panel to debate the legal and ethical issues encountered by journalists when they are asked, sometimes ordered, to testify in international criminal tribunals.
WATCH THE FULL VIDEO OF THE EVENT HERE
  • How should journalists respond to demands from international criminal tribunals? Why are some journalists are reluctant to testify, while others felt it is their duty?
  • What obligations and duties do journalists have if their work is used as evidence?
  • Should knowledge that reporting may be used in court influence how journalists work?
  • If journalists do agree to testify, to what extent and under what conditions should they cooperate and collaborate with the court and prosecutors?
WATCH THE FULL VIDEO OF THE EVENT HERE

HATE SPEECH TEST - IN GREEK! 

Media literacy organisation, Karpos, has translated the EJN test for hate speech into Greek. 

You can download the Greek version of the hate speech test, as well as 24 other languages 
here.

Karpos used the infographic in a module during a 
2-day seminar (24th-25th November) for educators as part of their Silence Hate project.

If you would like to support the Ethical Journalism Network by translating some of our resources please get in touch. 

FIND ALL THE TRANSLATIONS HERE

Working Group for Ethical Journalism in Palestine

The EJN's, Tom Law, gave a lecture on hate speech and ethical journalism to 60 journalism students and academics at the University of Hebron's journalism department on 13 November 2018. The university is taking part in research to create a glossary of hate speech in Palestinian media.

On November 14, the "Working Group for Ethical Journalism in Palestine” met in Ramallah as part of the EJN-supported project to create a glossary on hate speech focusing on the rise of hate speech in and amongst Palestine and Arab communities.

READ ABOUT THE NEXT STAGE OF THE PROJECT HERE

Trust, partisanship & high-quality journalism

The Ethical Journalism Network’s Director, Chris Elliott, took part in a panel discussion on trust and partisan news at the IMPRESS Trust in Journalism Conference 2018.
Chairing the session was Mary Fitzgerlad, Editor-in-Chief of openDemocracy, who started by explaining how they work to keep openDemocracy non-partisan and added: We don’t strive for balance, but we do strive for pluralism. For us, it’s about thinking what perspectives merit, have value, and which are not given a hearing elsewhere. But also how are we going to get those stories, those perspectives out, to people outside our bubble”.

The two other speakers on the panel were: Gavin Esler (journalist and author, former BBC journalist) and Vanessa Baird (co-editor of New Internationalist). 

READ A FULL SUMMARY OF THE DISCUSSION HERE

RECENT HIGHLIGHTS FROM OUR BLOG

- Ethical Storytelling: Journalism and Media Literacy.
Why are some journalists sceptical about media literacy? How can transparency about the process and ethics of journalism and its accountability mechanisms become a feature of its structure, design and storytelling techniques? Read the full blog here

Democratic leaders give historic commitment based on Declaration on Information and Democracy. On Sunday 11 November, EJN President, Aidan White, spoke at the Paris Peace Forum, to support the International Declaration on Information and Democracy along with seven heads of state and the head of UNESCO and the Council of Europe. Read the full press release here

ARIJ Forum To Show How Technology Can Serve Journalism

- Tackling the information crisis - New LSE report


Journalism in the time of hate - By A.S. Panneerselvan, an advisor to the Ethical Journalism Network and Readers' Editor of the Hindu. 

Turned Upside Down: Fake News and the Future of the Media - An interview with Aidan White, President of the Ethical Journalism Network with the`Green European Journal.

Scroll down for our summary of global media ethics news.
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UK EVENT

"It’s us today, tomorrow it could be you" - No Stone Unturned

Two UK journalists have been arrested by Durham police & currently on bail, they made a film about Northern Ireland.

The NUJ
ethic code’s first obligation is "a journalist at all times upholds and defends the principle of media freedom, the right of freedom of expression and the right of the public to be informed". 
NUJ members, Trevor Birney and Barry McCaffrey, upheld this principle and were arrested as a consequence.

Trevor and Barry will be in London for a special screening of the film at the NUJ’s head office in Kings Cross on Thursday 6 December starting at 19.00.

The screening is an opportunity to show your solidarity and support this vitally important campaign.

Tickets for the event cost £8.14. All the proceeds from the night will go to NUJ Extra, the union’s charity for members in need.

The film screening is on 6 December at
7pm in London. 
FIND OUT MORE AND BUY TICKETS HERE

UPCOMING ACTIVITIES

RECENT ACTIVITIES

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WHAT WE ARE READING

POVERTY REPORTING

Tips for covering poverty (IJNET)

PLATFORMS & SOCIAL MEDIA

The Guardian view on Zuckerberg’s Facebook: regulate it as a media firm (Guardian)
A Former Facebook Employee Said The Company Has A “Black People Problem” (BuzzFeed)
Should the First Amendment apply to Facebook? It’s complicated. (Recode)
“I had to borrow money to pay my rent”: Civil’s tokenomics has left some of its journalists wondering where their salary is (Nieman Lab)

GLOBAL ETHICS NEWS

AFRICA

New data suggests African audiences see significantly more misinformation than Americans do (Nieman Lab)

AMERICAS

MEXICO: A Journalist Was Killed in Mexico. Then His Colleagues Were Hacked. (New York Times)
US: 'It doesn’t mean it didn’t happen. It just hasn’t been discovered': Reporters spend years chasing down Catholic sex scandals (Poynter)

ASIA

INDIA: I Was The Victim Of A Deepfake Porn Plot Intended To Silence Me (HuffPost)
PHILIPPINES: Memo from a ‘Facebook nation’ to Mark Zuckerberg: You moved fast and broke our country. (Recode)
PHILIPPINES: Maria Ressa, Rappler Holdings charged in court for alleged tax evasion (Rappler)

EUROPE

HUNGRAY: The Website That Shows How a Free Press Can Die (NYT)
RUSSIA: Russian reporter, Alisa Kustikova, is the 2018 Young Journalist winner (Thomson Foundation)
UK: Local democracy reporters are improving public interest journalism, but the BBC-funded scheme has some problems (NUJ)
UK: Local newspapers need to be based on public service, not profit (Guardian)
UK: Just two per cent of Brits put ‘great deal’ of trust in journalists to tell truth, new research finds (Press Gazette)

MIDDLE EAST

PALESTINE: One-third of Palestinian young women are subjected to violence and harassment on the Internet! (7amleh)
SAUDI ARABIA: Trump slanders Khashoggi and betrays American values (Washington Post)

EJN ANNUAL REPORT 2017/2018

The Ethical Journalism Network Annual Report for 2017 and the first months of 2018 covers a period in which the buzzwords “fake news” and “post-truth” provided a misleading but appropriate focus for the news industry.

In recent months the challenges of a flawed information landscape have been dramatically exposed with Google, Facebook and other internet giants being called to account for their failure to promptly deal with the pollution of the information landscape.

READ THE FULL ANNUAL REPORT

ETHICAL JOURNALISM NETWORK RESOURCES

Copyright: How to protect it, how not to breach it

The Ethical Journalism Network has partnered with the Federation of African Journalists (FAJ) and the Thomson Foundation‘s Journalism Now platform, to create a free online course – Copyright: How to protect it, how not to breach it”
ENROL ON THE COURSE
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?
DOWNLOAD THE FULL REPORT HERE
TAKE THE EJN'S ONLINE ETHICS COURSE

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