Changes at the EJN - Aidan White takes on new role | Report Launch: "Trust in Ethical Journalism - The Key to Media Futures" | New videos & events
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The founder of the Ethical Journalism Network, Aidan White, has stepped down as Director and has been replaced by Chris Elliott, former Readers’ Editor of The Guardian.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.
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.
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 2018. The 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.
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.
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.
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.