PUBLICATIONS

‘Saving the News: Ethics and the Fight for the Future of Journalism' - 2019

‘Saving the News: Ethics and the Fight for the Future of Journalism’ was launched on 6 April 2019 at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia. 

It was edited by Tom Law and Chris Elliott.

Browse the magazine here or download the full magazine here.

• Introduction – Dorothy Byrne
• Foreword – Alan Rusbridger
• When ethics can cost a journalist work, liberty and even life? – Aidan White and Chris Elliott
• Honduras: Women in the front line of journalism – Wendy Funes
• The muzzling of independent journalism in South Sudan – Gai Alier John
  
• Mexico: What is the media’s role in the midst of multiple murder and mayhem – Elva Narcia
• Gender on the agenda for the future of ethical journalism – not just for women – Hannah Storm
• Journalism, activism and the fight for migrant rights – Tom Law
• Ethics through the lens: Photographing The Drug War In The Philippines – Raffy Lerma
  
• Fear trumping the First Amendment in the US – Alison Bethel McKenzie
  
• Ethics holds the key in the battle against Trump attack on journalists – Tom Kent
  
• Verification and deep fakes: The Ethics of Modern Photojournalism – Salim Amin
  
• Hate by omission silence and exclusion: A Caribbean Perspective – Dr Zahera Harb
  
• Islamophobia in Spain in 2019 – Felipe Maraña Marcos
  
• Monitoring and addressing hate speech in Arab media – Aida Al-Kaisy
  
• Walking the walk: What does it mean to be a progressive media outlet? – Lina Ejeilat
  
• The dark clouds over us: An Editor’s view of the state of the media in Kosovo and the wider region of South-East Europe – Agron Bajrami
  
• Good news for journalism in the backlash against Big Tech – Aidan White
  
• Good law or seriously flawed: The hidden threats in taming tech by law – James Ball
  

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How does the media on both sides of the Mediterranean report on migration? (2017)

“How does the media on both sides of the Mediterranean report on migration?”, was edited and prepared by the Ethical Journalism Network's Tom Law and Aidan White in the framework of EUROMED Migration IV – a project, financed by the European Union and implemented by International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD).

In the Executive Summary, Aidan White wrote:

Journalists from 17 countries, mostly around the Mediterranean, have examined the quality of media coverage within their respective national contexts. They highlight examples of good work marked by careful, sensitive and humanitarian reporting and also expose the shortcomings as well as the darker side of media driven by political bias, hate speech and opportunism.

The conclusions from many different parts of the Mediterranean are similar; there are inspirational examples of journalism at its best – stylish, resourceful, and painstaking – and equally powerful instances of media stereotyping and social exclusion.

But everywhere the study paints a picture of journalists and journalism under pressure: of under-resourced media unable to provide the time and money needed to tell the story in context; of poorly trained journalists uninformed about the complex nature of the migration narrative; of newsrooms vulnerable to pressure and manipulation by voices of hate, whether from political elites or social networks.

The influence of social media cannot be underestimated in an age when many, if not most, consumers get their information firstly from social networks and through their mobile devices. The publisher is more likely to be a major internet company, such as Facebook, which requires fresh thinking on how to promote core standards of journalism in covering migration on all platforms.

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