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3 May 2018
           
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WORLD PRESS FREEDOM DAY

"It's world press freedom day. A day to honour lost colleagues and to reaffirm that ethical journalism is the only guarantor of truth in a world of malicious lies." - EJN President Aidan White
ACCRA, GHANA

To mark International Labour Day on 1 May 2018 the Ethical Journalism Network and Federation for African Journalists (FAJ) organised a  meeting to discuss the issue of copyright and raise awareness of authors’ and journalists rights in Africa. The event, took place in Accra, Ghana at UNESCO’s World Press Freedom Day celebrations, and was attended by journalists, media practitioners, editors and media owners.
READ MORE ABOUT THE EVENT HERE

LISBON, PORTUGAL
The EJN took part in a debate on "Ethics as a Business Model" at an event organised by the Sindicato dos Jornalistas. Tom Law shared the findings of the EJN’s recent report, Trust in Ethical Journalism – The Key to Media Futures which 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.

Tom also talked about the progress of the Building Trust in Media in South East Europe and Turkey project in partnership with the European Federation of Journalists and UNESCO. As part of the programme the EJN has pioneered an Ethical Media Audit with leading editors, media owners and journalists from across the world. The audit is a simple tool that can help media monitor their own performance and also help develop ways of improving public trust and market confidence in their brand. It provides a basic structure for an Internal Standards Report for internal auditing of media that is developed and implemented by the media house itself.

WATCH THE VIDEO AND FIND OUT MORE HERE

NEW EJN REPORT

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. 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. 
DOWNLOAD THE FULL REPORT HERE

LATEST FROM THE INSIDE ETHICS BLOG

HOW A TURKISH NEWSPAPER CELEBRATES WORLD PRESS FREEDOM DAY

Turkey ‘celebrates’ World Press Freedom Day as the biggest prison for journalists in the world. This article was originally published by WAN-IFRA by Can Dündar the Former Editor in Chief of daily Cumhuriyet

READ THE ARTICLE HERE

WHAT WE ARE READING

GOOD GOVERNANCE & STANDARDS

ACCOUNTABILITY AND TRANSPARENCY - CBC updates Journalistic Standards & Practices for ‘Accountability & Transparency’

WHY JOURNALISTS COVERING THE REFUGEE CRISIS  FACE MORAL INJURY - Refugees Deeply talks to Professor Anthony Feinstein about how the refugee crisis saw many journalists confronted with trauma and hypocrisy. 

ITALIAN PUBLIC TV: NEW AGREEMENT INCLUDING COMMITMENT TO TACKLE HATE SPEECH - Italian public television the Federazione Nazionale della Stampa Italiana have signed a new collective agreement to extend the national labour contract to journalists working in public media. For the first time, the agreement includes an ethical commitment to combat hate speech, discrimination and racism, as well as a commitment to promote gender equality and the rights of minors. (Via Carta di Roma)

ETHICS & GUIDELINES

EMPATHY - Could you be more empathetic in your reporting? The answer is probably yes, and here are some concrete tips for how to do it (Nieman Labs)

DRONES KRDO’s Drone Went into Restricted Area, Colorado station apologizes. (iMediaEthics) For guidelines on drone journalism see "Poynter workshops produce new drone journalism ethics policy"

PLATFORMS

-  Digital Dominance: Is Big Tech Doing Enough to Protect Human Rights? (Center for Media, Data and Society)
Where Countries Are Tinderboxes and Facebook Is a Match (NYT)
Why Facebook's Troubles haven't Dented Its Profits (WIRED)
 
-  YouTube’s Plan to Clean Up the Mess That Made It Rich (Bloomberg)

MEDIA LITERACY

Is This Story Share-Worthy? 


The Newseum has created a flowchart infographic for middle and high school students to gauge the value of a news story and weigh what they should do with it. It can be downloaded with guidelines for teachers about how to use it as a teaching tool here

All of the EJN's infographics on hate speech and migration can be downloaded here.

GLOBAL ETHICS NEWS

AMERICAS

RACE & VIOLENCE IN AMERICA
Last week the River Valley Times apologised for a column published last month which suggested that ‘black men might be better off at home after a certain hour’. (via iMediaEthics)
Taking a longer historical lens the Montgomery Advertiser has reflected on the newspaper's shame of how the paper had covered lynchings of black men.
Back to the modern day, NPR has also investigated how black reporters report on black death.

TRUMP V THE PRESS
US: Why Trump Is Winning and the Press Is Losing (NYRB)

AFRICA

NIGERIA: News site admits ‘faux pas’ after saying woman ‘destroyed a professor’s career’ (iMediaEthics)

ASIA

CAMBODIA: Corruption culture and low pay hurting journalism ethics in Cambodia: report (Phnom Penh Post)
INDIA: Journalists say they intimidated, ostracized if they criticize Modi and the BJP (Reuters)
JAPAN: Me Too rises in Japan as sexually harassed journalists speak out (Japan Times)

EUROPE

- News Media Europe has launched  #SaveYourPress - a campaign to empower democracy with free, independent journalism.
- European Commission’s plan to tackle online disinformation (EFJ)

FRANCE: Nonprofit houses refugee journalists, defends press freedom (CJR)
IRELAND: ‘Unhealthy’ media ownership sends Ireland down press freedom league (The Times)

MIDDLE EAST & AFRICA

EGYPT: Egypt’s mufti issues fatwa against buying Facebook ‘likes’ (AP)
IRAQ: Where Facebook’s Fake News Has Deadly Consequences (Daily Beast)

ETHICAL JOURNALISM NETWORK RESOURCES

MEDIA AND TRAFFICKING GUIDELINES

 Last month the International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD) published  guidelines on Media and Trafficking in Human Beings authored by the Ethical Journalism Network's Aidan White. 

The guidelines are available to be downloaded in Albanian, Arabic, Azerbaijani, 
Bosnian, English, Romanian, 
Russian and Turkish
This is the second ICMPD publication in collaboration with the EJN. “How does the media on both sides of the Mediterranean report on migration?” - a 17 country study for journalists and policymakers - was published in May last year. 
READ THE GUIDELINES HERE

NEW VIDEOS FROM THE EJN

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 informal hearing at the United Nations as part of the preparatory process for an international conference for migration to adopt a global compact for safe, orderly and regular migration.
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