This article was first published by the Ethical Journalism Network on March 18, 2020. By Hannah Storm, EJN Director For much of the past decade, I have worked in journalism safety, as director of the International News Safety Institute, and latterly in media ethics, as CEO of the Ethical Journalism Network. In this time, my […]
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Denis Muller, University of Melbourne From an ethical perspective, covering the coronavirus story is really hard to do well. The reason for this lies in an inherent conflict between two ethical obligations: the obligation to truth-telling and the obligation not to add unjustifiably to public anxiety. From the earliest days, when the virus spread rapidly […]
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A select parliamentary committee constituted to investigate allegations of sexual violence in Uganda’s schools, colleges and universities has recommended strict legal measures to ensure survivors of sexual violence are protected by the media.
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George Ogola, University of Central Lancashire An article by the New York Times on the Riverside terrorist attacks in Nairobi has provoked fury and consternation in Kenya. The article features a photograph by AP credited to the photographer Khalil Senusi showing bodies of victims of the attack slumped on chairs and covered in blood. A […]
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You are a journalist and government has decided to give you 40 iron sheets. Would you accept them? That is the question being asked and debated in the northern Ugandan district of Lira, after government, through the Office of the Prime Minister, selected 25 journalists to receive 40 iron sheets each as a ‘resettlement package’. […]
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