Keeping the ethical flame alive
The Ethical Journalism Initiative website is a new campaign to rekindle old values in media worldwide launched by the International Federation of Journalists. The future of media is the hot topic everywhere, particularly as journalists and others wrestle with the rapid changes in the way journalism works. [..]
News
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is concerned about a blanket ban by China’s Central Propaganda Department on reporting by any media, including the state-owned Xinhua News Agency, of [..]
(CJR)“When you build the data yourself, you can be fairly certain no one else is going to have the story.”
(The Atlantic)Last February I got an offer from Kroll, one of the world's largest private investigation firms, to go undercover as a journalist-spy in the Ecuadorian Amazon. [..]
Activities
Workshop
Reuters course in Vietnam will focus on crisis reporting
November 01, 2010 - November 05, 2010
(Ijnet) Full-time professional journalists in Southeast Asia can apply for a five-day course on reporting crises and disasters, to take place in Hanoi, Vietnam. Deadline: October 18. [..]
(Ijnet) Journalists, students and researchers from around the world are invited to take part in a training on trafficking of women and children in Ghana. [..]
(Ijnet) The Forum for African Investigative Reporters will hold its 2010 West African regional conference in Benin on August 30 and 31. [..]
Read All About it: the IFJ book on the story of ethical journalism with guidelines on how to defend standards in times of trouble
Campaigns
Video
Korea Youtube Protest
“At its best journalism can build bridges to change the world” Aidan White, IFJ General Secretary The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the Journalists’ [..]