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6 April 2018
           

CHANGES AT THE EJN

The founder of the Ethical Journalism Network, Aidan White, has stepped down as Director and has been replaced by Chris Elliott, former Readers’ Editor of The Guardian.

White, 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.

Elliott was appointed Director of the EJN initially for a year and he resigned from his role as a Trustee to take the position. The Annual Meeting of the EJN also confirmed its officers for the coming year. 
From the left: Thomas Spence (Trustee), Kjersti Løken Stavrum (Trustee); Randi S. Øgrey (Trustee); Jeanette Gustafsdotter (Trustee); Dorothy Byrne (Chair); Salim Amin (Trustee); Aidan White (Founder & President); Ashok Gupta (Treasurer); Zahera Harb (Trustee); Bernt Olufsen (Trustee); Chris Elliott (CEO & Director); Aida al-Kaisy (Programme Consultant); Tom Law (Director of Campaigns & Communications).
Missing from this photo Danica Ilic (EJN Programme Officer). 
FIND OUT MORE ABOUT OUR BOARD AND STAFF

NEW EJN REPORT LAUCNHES MONDAY

The EJN's latest report "Trust in Ethical Journalism - The Key to Media Futures" launches on Monday 9 April.

In advance of the release HuffPost has published James Ball's chapter
"ROBOT WARS - How artificial intelligence will define the future of news" as part of their “This New World” series. 

Read the article on HuffPost: 
Artificial Intelligence Will Affect The News We Consume. Whether That’s A Good Thing Is Up To Humans.
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ILO & EJN LAUNCH NEW FELLOWSHIP 

The ILO and EJN are launching the 2018 Labour Migration Journalism Fellowship Programme at an event in Amman, Jordan next week. The programme targets journalists and digital media in order to change the narrative on migration in the region. 
 
MEET THE 2018 FELLOWS AND FIND OUT MORE HERE

'ANOTHER NEWS STORY' SCREENING 

As part of our Ethics in the News series of events in partnership with the Frontline Club, the EJN screened Another News Story followed by a Q&A with director / producer Orban Wallace, producer Verity Wislocki, and forced migration researcher Ahmad al-Rashid on Wednesday 4th April 2018The discussion after the film was moderated by Chair of the Ethical Journalism Network, Dorothy Byrne, who is the Head of News and Current Affairs at Channel 4.
FIND OUT MORE ABOUT THE EVENT HERE

NEW VIDEOS FROM THE EJN

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.
Watch the EJN's Aidan White talk about how journalists should approach reporting on human trafficking on the Thomson Foundation's Facebook pageThe discussion was part of the Thomson Foundation's 'Journalism Now' online courses, which includes the Ethical Journalist's Toolkit developed by the EJN. 
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LATEST FROM THE INSIDE ETHICS BLOG

REPORTING TERRORISM: WHEN MEDIA INHUMAITY MAKES THE ORDEAL WORSE

If the future of journalism depends on building public trust, the grim reading of an inquiry into the 2017 Manchester terrorism attack at a pop concert indicates that news media have a mountain to climb. An independent review into the preparedness for, and emergency response to, the Manchester Arena attack on 22 May 2017 did not focus on the work of journalists, but it contained some home truths for editors and reporters.
READ THE ARTICLE HERE

THE TALK IS TECH, BUT IN JOURNALISM IT'S THE HUMAN TOUCH THAT COUNTS

"Some of us are confident that, for the foreseeable future at least, algorithms cannot be trusted to understand and replace the nuanced ethical judgement of journalists and editors."

The EJN's Aidan White writes that talk inside media will focus on algorithms, bots, AI and mobile journalism in 2018 but argues that we should not forget about the human touch. 
READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE

WHAT WE ARE READING

TRUST IN MEDIA

Reporters Without Borders launches The Journalism Trust Initiative to combat disinformation online
Press standards: the vital bond of trust that journalists have to win back (Guardian)
Are you ready? Here is all the data Facebook and Google have on you (Guardian)
Emily Bell thinks public service media today has its most important role to play since World War II (Nieman Lab)

SOCIAL MEDIA & PLATFORMS

Why the business model of social media giants like Facebook is incompatible with human rights (The Conversation)
Would a global cyber ethics commission help 'counter the lies' of the tech lobby? (DW)

MEDIA & MIGRATION

Deeply Talks: Facebook and the Smugglers (Refugees Deeply)
We need a global database on false news about migrants and refugees (Poynter)

GLOBAL ETHICS NEWS

AFRICA

CAMEROON: Cameroonian journalists face ban on political reporting (IJNET)
LIBERIA: Liberia bans female genital cutting in a triumph for local journalism (CJR)
ZIMBABWE: The day my career as a ghostwriter nearly imploded (CJR)

AMERICAS

US: How America's Largest Local TV Owner Turned Its News Anchors Into Soldiers In Trump's War On The Media (The Concourse)

ASIA

INDIA: How to tackle fake news legally without a law in India (India Today)
MYANMAR: Is Facebook contributing to genocide in Myanmar? (Asia Times)

EUROPE

CROATIA: Fact-checking around the world: Inside Croatia’s Faktograf (IJNET)
RUSSIA: Media boycotts Russian parliament in sexual harassment row (Guardian)

MIDDLE EAST

SYRIA: In Syria, where jobs are scarce, journalism becomes a means of survival (CJR)

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