A day to honour lost colleagues and to reaffirm that ethical journalism is the only guarantor of truth in a world of malicious lies.
3 May 2018
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"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.
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 Auditwith 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.
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.
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.
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)
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.
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.