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The #FactsFirstPH roadshow in Iloilo City (Philippines) shines a spotlight on the power of community collaboration in promoting ethical AI practices and responsible digital media usage. [Rappler is self-defined as "the Philippines' leading digital media company that's driven by uncompromising journalism, enabled by technology, and enriched by communities of action.] 
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Non-news sites expose people to more political content than news sites. Why? - Nieman Journalism Lab
Where did they get their political information? From entertainment, shopping sites, celebrity gossip pages — all the things that people prefer in comparison to news and public affairs. These non-news sites emerged as the dominant source of political information simply by virtue of the volume of activity there compared with the little time spent on news sites.
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“Out of every 10 visits to political content, 3.4 come from news and 6.6 from non-news sites,” the researchers noted.
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Valeriya Yegoshyna, journalist, spent years investigating high-level corruption in Ukraine, but now focuses on investigating allegations of war crimes committed by Russian forces on Ukrainian territory.
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Reflections of a wartime journalist who believes that « investigations should not only inform but also lead to change ».
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At a time when Europe is honing its approach to the moderation of online content, the belgian Council of Journalistic Ethics (CDJ) explores, in a research report which has just been published, the relationships between journalistic self-regulation and regulation of the media. information within the EU. After discussion with the stakeholders, 10 recommendations emerged which underline the need for dialogue and cooperation on an equal footing between both bodies, in order to best protect freedom of the press and the right to information.
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A major contribution at a time when a new regulatory framework concerning online content and digital actors is emerging – the proposed European legislation on media freedom (EMFA), the implementation of the new Digital Services Regulation (DSA) – and could challenge the current divisions of competence in place in each EU member state.
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In a request for legislative powers requested by the Executive Power to Congress, a severe measure has been proposed that threatens freedom of expression, for which reason the Peruvian Press Council (CPP, by its Spanish acronym) requests that it be removed from the general document.
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Teaching students about historical figures is essential to help them understand the world and society they live in, The Edvocate website say. Thus, it explains why it’s crucial to educate youth about Virginia Vallejo, a famous journalist from Colombia who had a relationship with drug dealer Pablo Escobar, and how her story can teach a powerful lesson in courage, journalism, and ethics.
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A US Educational think tank, The Edvocate, preconize to teach students about Virginia Vallejo’s life and career so that educators are empowering them with a nuanced understanding of multiple aspects of society such as the importance of journalism and ethical decision-making in challenging situations.
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The Australian Press Council has found that an opinion piece published in the NT Times and the Cairns Post - and attributed to Dr Kevin Donnelly by the OutofPerth news website - failed to fully present facts about the closure of a gender clinic in Great Britain, Australia’s Safe Schools program, and Victoria’s legislation against conversion therapy practices.
CDJM's insight:
The Australian Press Council said that even though it was an opinion piece the publisher had an obligation to take reasonable steps to ensure factual material is accurate and not misleading and expressions of opinion are not based on significantly inaccurate factual material or omission of key facts.
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The Spanish Agency for the Supervision of Artificial Intelligence (AESIA) has been charged with developing “inclusive, sustainable and citizen-centered” AI.
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Media ethics in the Pacific Islands varies considerably among nations in practice, as shown in scholarship. This case study of 16 Marshall Islands journalists aims to provide evidence of ethical decision-making in practice in one Pacific Island nation, and demonstrate the intersection of imported journalism values and local culture.
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How to address the core value of independence in journalism when the church and a strongly influential chiefly system are dominant ?
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Due to similar challenges to ethical journalism in the countries of Central, East and Southeast Europe, media councils will need to join forces to adapt established practices in order to build their own sustainable media self-regulation model applicable in the region. This is the conclusion of a workshop held on 25-26 May 2023 in Budapest and the follow-up webinar on 28 June organised by the Editors’ Forum of Hungary as part of the EU-funded project “Media Councils in the Digital Age” (MCDA).
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Indonesian Press Council’s Deputy Chief Agung Dharmawijaya underlined the importance of ethics in carrying out journalism activities during a Basic Reporter Course (Susdape) on Wednesday 26.
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News from Indonesia Press Council
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Every journalistic story is the result of a series of choices — from the framing given to a reported fact to the sources heard, and even the words or images that shape the final content. In choosing what to include, the journalist also chooses what will be left out, what will not be told. What forces shape these choices and how do they relate to journalistic objectivity? At the 18th International Congress of Investigative Journalism, held by the Brazilian Association of Investigative Journalism (Abraji, by its Portuguese acronym) in São Paulo between June 28 and July 2, professionals debated objectivity in view of the changes journalism has undergone in recent decades.
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"Shouldn't we give more information, explain better the path we took, why we made certain choices ? Not to take it for granted, as if people already understood the whole process, as if everything was obvious," Ana Rita Cunha, audience director of the brazilian website Aos Fatos, said, thinking about how to rebuild the bond of trust with the public.
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During Côte d’Ivoire, West Africa’s 2010 presidential elections, conditions on the streets of the main city Abidjan became too dangerous for journalists to report in person, which influenced many newsrooms to close their offices and swiftly switch to digital platforms. This study includes 15 field interviews with journalists who reported during the 2010–11 national elections in Abidjan. Jeslyn Lemke examines how journalists adapted their news routines to using digital platforms to avoid being physically present during this civil war. This case study of Côte d’Ivoire adds to the theoretical discussion on a context-dependent theory of African journalistic practices in the digital era, in which sociopolitical contexts shape a more accurate definition of how journalists operate in repressive African regimes. Results show contextual factors such as spatial immobility, collaboration, and negotiating polarized communal violence are emergent patterns in how journalists adapted their reporting routines.
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With News Corp Australia producing a mind bending 3,000 articles a week using generative AI – using just a team of four – the question now is what is the real role of editorial teams? In a wide ranging interview, the doyen of AI, Professor Charlie Beckett, tells us that media companies will soon think of themselves as data companies, not newsrooms. For journalists, it will become solely about adding the human touch.
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Two recent studies shed light on how seemingly simple social media features can have complex effects on user attitudes and beliefs.
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Fiji's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Communications Manoa Kamikamica has announced the impending establishment of a Media Council, signaling a move toward self-regulation within Fiji’s media industry. Kamikamica provided assurances that the Council’s formation is imminent and emphasized that this marks a significant step towards a self-regulating media sector, aligning with the principles of true democracy.
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Presscouncils.eu launches financial support for media councils in emergency situations. Self-regulation bodies can apply until 16 October 2023. The grant within the project Media Councils in the Digital Age #4 will distribute a total of €30,000 to two self-regulation bodies. That refers to media councils in a country at war, or in a challenging political environment, or with financial difficulties, or with structural deficiencies. The call applies to EU Member States, candidate countries and non-EU countries in the Creative Europe Programme.
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The Australian Press Council (APC) has partially upheld a complaint from ABC Four Corners’ reporter Louise Milligan against an editorial in the Murdoch's daily The Australian, finding the article was likely to cause “substantial offence and distress”. The piece in question, titled "Greatest enemy of truth is those who conspire to lie‘" was published two years ago under "commentary" in The Australian without a by-line.
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The press council's decision considers in particular that this type of article, which looks like a settling of accounts, does not justify "a sufficient public interest".
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What's okay and what's verboten when it comes to AI in the production of news? Here's how 21 newsrooms in the U.S., Europe, and elsewhere have laid out their own policies and plans.
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Newsroom raids are incredibly rare in the United States; Katherine Jacobsen, of the Committee to Protect Journalists, told the Reflector that she isn’t aware of one ever having happened before the one that occured in Marion (Kansas) in early august. More broadly, though, threats to press freedom are increasingly common—not least at hyperlocal outlets, such as the Record, whose owner Joan Meyer died just after the raid in Marion.
CDJM's insight:
The (universal) difficulty in reporting on local affairs for local media.
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Cartooning for Peace welcomes the European Parliament’s resolution of 11 July 2023 on the “Protection of journalists in the world and the European Union’s policy on the matter” and is delighted to have been able to contribute to it. Echoing the 2019 Addis Ababa Declaration put forward by Xavier Gorce (Belgium) with the support of the organisation, the resolution specifically recalls “the obligation to protect freedom of expression, including for satirists and cartoonists” in their mission to inform, defend and promote fundamental freedoms and highlight abuses of power".
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Also read : The European Parliament resolution that "recalls the essential role that journalists can play in promoting and safeguarding democratic values, human rights and fundamental freedoms"
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The results of the 2023 Media Pluralism Monitor (MPM), which have just been published, confirm the decline in media pluralism in Europe. Of the 32 countries analysed (the 27 EU Member States and the five candidate countries), barely seven present a satisfactory situation. For the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ), this new study confirms the urgent need to considerably strengthen the provisions of the European Media Freedom Act (EMFA), which is currently being examined by the European Parliament.
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A lawyer for Elon Musk’s X Corp. threatened independent researchers who have studied disinformation and hate speech on Twitter.
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A computer scientist at the University of Southern California and his team found that hate speech significantly increased on the platform after Musk acquired it. A study from the Institute for Strategic Dialogue and CASM Technology also found that antisemitism had remained “higher than ever” on Twitter.
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In a recent development that has sparked controversy, Gabon has enacted a law that removes journalists from the selection process of members for the High Authority for Communication (HAC), the country’s media regulator. This significant change, which was implemented on 3rd July, allows the president of Gabon, the National Assembly president, and the Senate president to each choose three of the HAC’s nine members, a departure from the previous system where journalists could select two members. The shift relegates journalists to the role of spectators, stirring concerns about the HAC becoming a puppet of the government’s interests.
CDJM's insight:
A change operated in secrecy.
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Call it what you will: brand journalism, corporate journalism, corporate media. More and more companies are creating “journalistic” content. Some are hiring actual journalists. Others are building studios, hiring camera crews and launching dedicated news sites to cover themselves and their industries. "There are some ways in which the corporate journalism and traditional journalism should play by the same rules", argues the author, Daniel Lyons, on an online pdf served by Hubspot, a start-up where he's been working. [Daniel Lyons is the author of Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start Up Bubble (2016) about his time at the Boston, MA startup HubSpot, an opus that became a bestseller. Under the pseudonym "Fake Steve Jobs," he also wrote The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs, a popular blog and parody of the former Apple CEO]
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"For a journalist, getting dropped into a corporate setting can be like landing on a different planet -- one where, sometimes, it feels like there’s not enough oxygen", Dan Lyons reports.
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Ted Aldwin Ong of the Iloilo Media People’s Council said that local media should have ethical guidelines for the use of AI in the local context. Because “the landscape and the practice are evolving and so our guidelines…. A lot of Western tools available are not applicable, especially guidelines, are not that really useful [for us],” he said.