"Trust Me, I'm Not a Politician". EJN chair, Dorothy Byrne's on trust, journalism and politics | Tackling gender equality and online harassment.
7 June 2019
Trust Me, I'm Not a Politician EJN chair, Dorothy Byrne, gives a lecture on trust, journalism and politics
In Britain and across much of the western world, many voters are saying that politicians have failed them. How can faith and trust in democracy be restored? And could it be that journalists, condemned by some politicians as purveyors of fake news, are key players in finding the solutions?
Around 30 journalists and journalists’ representatives from 20 European countries, including the EJN's Hannah Storm, attended a workshop on “Increasing gender equality and diversity in the workplace” on 28 and 29 May in Istanbul, Turkey.
Co-organised by the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) and the Journalists’ Union of Turkey (TGS), the workshop provided best practices and concrete tools to improve equality between male and female journalists, improve diversity in the newsroom and counter growing online harrassment.
Hannah provided participants with concrete advice on how to fight online harassment and detailed examples of organisational and individual responses to put in place with the help of colleagues, relatives and journalists’ organisations.
What is the Mexican media’s role in the midst of multiple murders and mayhem?
Amid an atmosphere of violence, the press in Mexico has found mechanisms to protect itself in the exercise of journalism, sometimes openly choosing censorship to protect their lives.
For the EJN, journalist Elva Narcia consulted 20 experts, between lawyers, academics, activists, journalists and human rights defenders, to try to find out what is the role of Mexico's press in the fight against crime and violence.
MUSLIMS IN THE MEDIA: Towards more tolerance and diversity
A new EJN report studies the ways in which Muslims are portrayed in the media across Europe. It investigates the prevalence and nature of anti-Muslim bias, particularly in relation to migration andterrorism, and looks at what is being done and can be done in the future to counter negative narratives.
The countries included are: Austria, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Turkey and the United Kingdom.
On Friday 14 June, Magda Abu-Fadil will chair a discussion on migration reporting at the Global Editors Network summit in Athens with Hannah Storm, the CEO of the EJN and Omoyel Sowore of Sahara Reporters.
As well as speaking on the main stage, Hannah will lead a workshop with the EU's Fundamental Rights Agency to present a toolkit on media and migration developed by the EJN and supported by the European Federation of Journalists, European Broadcasting Union and others partners.
FUNDING JOURNALISM
- Navigating non-profit news (CJR) - Know your rights: what should journalists do when their copyright is infringed? (Journalism)
SOCIAL PLATFORMS - YouTube is all over the map when it comes to offensive content (CJR) - YouTube won't take down homophobic harassment videos, but it will demonetize them (CNN) - These Reporters Lost Their Jobs. Now They’re Fighting Back Against Big Tech. (BuzzFeed)
PRESS FREEDOM
- Pakistani, Egyptian journalists awarded at IPI World Congress (IPI)
- Freedom and the Media: A Downward Spiral (Freedom House)
GUIDELINES - Guidelines for foreign journalists covering the upcoming European Games in Belarus (EFJ) - How power and privilege shape communities: 10 tips on building bridges between the mainstream media and underrepresented voices (Journalism)
OPPORTUNITIES
THE STATE OF FREELANCING IN 2019
This Frontline Freelance Register (FFR) survey is to canvass the views of freelance journalists whose work exposes them to risk. The survey covers various issues from physical safety concerns to employment conditions, from mental health to digital security needs. FFR will use the survey results to inform its strategy and priorities. This will help FFR to better represent and support freelance journalists who are exposed to risk in their work.
EJN Annual report 2018/19: Ethics and the Fight for the Future of Journalism
Our year in numbers:
Over the last year, the EJN reached far more than the participants through our core activities than ever before. We carried out 166 programme-related actions (50 more than the same period last year) where the EJN had direct contact with our target groups – journalists and media executives; media academics and students of journalism; policymakers and civil society groups totalling over 7,100 individuals.
