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"The undermining of media ethics shall not be allowed," the Turkish Press Council (created in 1988,) has said in a statement, as "it has been exposed through the cancellation of a contract that a political party and a TV channel had made a contract for the broadcast of news reports and parliamentary group addresses." "Our priority is preventing any erosion in independent news reporting and media ethics that constitute the basis of journalism and broadcasting", the Council said. 
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Countries must address the “grave global harm” caused by the proliferation of hate and lies online, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said recently, launching a key report designed to shore up information integrity on digital platforms. Alarm over the potential threat posed by the rapid development of generative artificial intelligence (AI) must not obscure the damage already being done by digital technologies that enable the spread of online hate speech, as well as mis- and disinformation, he said.
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"New measures in dozens of countries continue to undermine press freedom," can we read in the Information Integrity on Digital Platforms' s report, the UNESCO global report for 2022 from its flagship World Trends in Freedom of Expression and Media Development series. According to it, 85 per cent of the world’s population experienced a decline in press freedom in their country during the preceding five years, as 2,7 billion people are still offline in the world. "A further priority is to strengthen independent media, boost the prevalence of fact-checking initiatives and underpin reliable and accurate reporting in the public interest", it says.
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Objections by the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) and city police union to Times reporters knocking on an officer's door expose an alarming misunderstanding of a free press.
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A « nice » little Californian story that begins when two reporters from the LA Times try to do their job of fact-checking, as usual and as they should...
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On 21 June 2023, the press council of French- and German-speaking Belgium (Conseil de déontologie journalistique - CDJ) found that a journalist who fact-checked a public figure's statements on Twitter and Facebook about her resignation from her political post had neither properly verified the information he was revealing nor sought the right of reply from the person he was seriously questioning, i.e. the complainant. The CDJ stressed that the exercise of the right of reply, like the search for the truth, is an ethical requirement that the use of a short format – whether Twitter or other media – can in no way alter.
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The use of new technologies, and the ease of work they can offer, cannot relax fundamental ethical constraints.
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In a written speech that he made public without delivering it, while receiving a delegation of the Biagio Agnes International Journalism Prize on Saturday, June 24, Pope Francis reminded journalists of their important role of informing and educating future generations in a responsible and ethical manner.
CDJM's insight:
A papal course in journalistic ethics, centered on “three elements” of the work of journalists “which, according to him, are perhaps less and less used, but which still have a lot to teach”: the notebook, the pen and the look.
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Online discourse, which invariably leads to real-world harms, cannot be held hostage to the whims and fancies of a billionaire or a corporate behemoth.
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Twenty-seven journalists and students from 20 EU countries were trained on digital journalism practices as part of a Master Class taking place in Brussels from May 31st to June 2nd. The training was organised by the Belgian press councils CDJ and Raad voor de Journalistiek, the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) in the framework of the EU-funded project Media Councils in the Digital Age (MCDA).
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Arthur Gregg Sulzberger, the New York Times’s publisher, discusses in the New Yorker bias in reporting, the Times’ financial comeback, and criticisms of its coverage of Trump, trans issues, and the war in Ukraine.
CDJM's insight:
“The Times serves the cause of truth,” assures Sulzberger. Because “an informed public, in our view, is the most important ingredient of a healthy democracy. We believe that a common factual basis is the most important ingredient of a democracy”. A long and rich interview with the editor of the New York Times, where the word “independence” comes up ten times and where the latter looks at artificial intelligence, somewhat fearfully, like so many editors in the world: AI “may represent an even greater disruptive force on our industry and on the wider news ecosystem than the arrival of the Internet,” he asserts.
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« Le Times sert la cause de la vérité », assure Sulzberger. Parce qu'« un public informé, à notre avis, est l'ingrédient le plus important d'une démocratie saine. Nous croyons qu'une base factuelle commune est l'ingrédient le plus important d'une démocratie ». Un long et riche entretien avec l'éditeur du New York Times, où le mot « indépendance » revient dix fois et où ce dernier regarde l'intelligence artificielle, quelque peu craintif, comme tant d'éditeurs dans le monde : l'IA « peut représenter une force perturbatrice encore plus grande sur notre industrie et sur l'écosystème de l'information au sens large que l'arrivée d'Internet », affirme-t-il.
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Journalists at two dozen local newspapers across the U.S. walked off the job monday 4th to demand an end to painful cost-cutting measures and a change of leadership at Gannett, the country’s biggest newspaper chain. Gannett, which owns USA Today and more than 200 other daily U.S. newspapers with print editions, announced last August that it would lay off newsroom staff to lower costs as it struggles with declining revenue amid a downturn in ad sales and customer subscriptions.
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Employees and others who held a rally monday in Jacksonville said newspapers are in trouble and they want a fair contract. In 2016, there were 90 employees with the paper in Jacksonville. Now, that number has dropped to 22.
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Reporters Without Borders urges advertisers not to place ads with AI-generated “content farms” | RSF
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The growth of the generative artificial intelligence market led to the proliferation of AI-generated websites that resemble real media sites and are taking ad revenue from them. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on advertisers not to encourage the spread of these clickbait “content farms” by giving them access to the funds that should be reserved for real journalism.
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An appeal to the responsibility of advertisers to direct the advertising windfall towards quality information.
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Inside the many debates swirling around the rapid rollout of so-called artificial intelligence, there is a relatively obscure skirmish focused on the choice of the word “hallucinate”. Tech CEOs want us to believe that generative AI will benefit humanity. They are kidding themselves, says Naomi Klein.
CDJM's insight:
The author of No Logo warns of "what may turn out to be the largest and most consequential theft in human history". Why ? "Because what we are witnessing is the wealthiest companies in history (Microsoft, Apple, Google, Meta, Amazon …) unilaterally seizing the sum total of human knowledge that exists in digital, scrapable form and walling it off inside proprietary products, many of which will take direct aim at the humans whose lifetime of labor trained the machines without giving permission or consent."
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What do fact-checkers need about technology? Answers: the ethical values that frame journalism and fact-checking practices, a human-in-the-loop approach, and trusting the tools they use.
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Different sessions from may to september 2023, in Belgium, Canada, Switzerland, Spain, Norway and the UK.
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A Tunisian appeals court has recently sentenced a journalist to five years in prison for revealing details of a counterterrorism operation and refusing to reveal his sources, according to his lawyer, prompting outcry from media rights advocates.
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The rapid deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) in the media industry presents a major threat to information integrity. In response to this unprecedented challenge, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and its partners are launching an international committee to develop a charter aimed at regulating the use of AI in media. The committee is chaired by Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Maria Ressa.
CDJM's insight:
This initiative joins, at the international level, those already started by several european press councils, including the Conseil de déontologie journalistique et de médiation (CDJM-France), which made public a Recommendation on good practices in journalism and artificial intelligence on July 14. [in french]
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Far-right government accused of leaning on state broadcaster to axe programme by journalist who criticised ministers.
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A new research published by Universitat Ramon Llull in Blanquerna (Barcelona) studied the role of technology in journalism and the challenges that are of greatest concern to European press councils. Through 27 interviews with press councils from 20 countries, their research raises important questions about the future of journalism and the need to remodel the profession to keep up with the digital age.[PressCouncils.eu is the portal of the Media Councils in the Digital Age (MCDA) project supported by the European Commission to strengthen the European model of media self-regulation to protect media freedom and encourage professionalism in journalistic content]
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At the same time, CDJM (France) publishes a recommendation-guide on the topic: journalism and artificial intelligence: good practices [in french]. Just to remember, in both case, that journalism is a human act, first.
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AI generation makes the work easy, but Nature's journal is not open to it. One of the most trusted and visited academic journals in the world, Nature, the 153 year-old journal, recently banned the use of AI-generated art or content in the published works that will appear on its platform. This means that anything created by ChatGPT, Midjourney AI, Adobe Firefly, DALL-E 2, and other content generation AI tech would not be published.
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A free press is central to democratic ideals, good governance and the exercise of fundamental human rights recognized by most democracies, especially the freedom of expression and the press. Our situation requires considering if we are helpless with social media invasion, ask Gabriel Nyitse and Michael Faloseyi, one the nigerian website The Cable.
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"Ethical consideration of fairness, truth, objectivity and respect for others’ feelings, and even tradition should be taught early enough in our educational curriculum", plead the authors. [The Cable is an independent online newspaper in Nigeria launched in 2014]
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The embassies of Ukraine and the US to Bulgaria condemned the comments Sonya Momchilova, chairperson of the Electronic Media Council (EMC), recently made about the Bucha mass killings, saying it was propaganda. Two days after Momchilova’s interview, the Electronic Media Council published a position that it “strongly disagrees with any suggestion of denial of the Bucha atrocities. It is about a monstrous act of torture and murder of civilians”.
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Last year, following previous comments, the Bulgarian Helsinki Committee, the Association of European Journalists-Bulgaria, and Reporters Without Borders already requested her resignation.
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Big platforms have policies restricting graphic content, but as sector becomes more regulated, words will have to be followed by action
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College students Aliza Kopans and Emma Lembke think lawmakers should hold social media companies accountable—and they need youth voices to do it. They cofounded Tech(nically) politics, a youth lobbying mouvement that seeks to regulate social media platforms.
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A new WAN-IFRA survey, conducted in collaboration with SCHICKLER Consulting, sets a barometer of where news publishers stand so far on using Generative AI.
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Only a fifth of respondents (20 percent) said that they have guidelines from management on when and how to use GenAI tools, while 3 percent said that the use of the technology is not allowed at their publications, say the report. "As newsrooms grapple with the many complex questions related to AI, it seems safe to assume that more and more publishers will establish specific AI policies on how to use the technology (or perhaps forbid its use entirely)", does it estimate.
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The practice of gathering, verifying, and publishing news and information to the public serves an important role in society as a watchdog, a forum for educated debate, and a means of holding those in power accountable.
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Public opinion by Nathaniel Dwamena, president of the YAFO Institute, engaged in activities that promote civil liberty and economic freedom in Ghana. He highligths here a conflict of interest, whereas some journalists, supposed to be impartial, is paid through a private company of media consulting. « Their personal financial gains may influence their editorial decisions, compromising the independence and objectivity of their reporting », does he consider.
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Texting poses new questions about how newsrooms can build authentic relationships and restore trust in local journalism.
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Through the experience of local media focused on the use of SMS, here are some ethical issues raised by new journalistic practices and the redefinition of the link between journalists and their sources. A necessity in "deserts news", where media coverage and local infrastructure are inexistants, reveals this study published by the University of Wisconsin. Small-scale SMS information, managed by journalists and studied here, could fill the void left by older models that fail to gain traction or simply build trust. A civic and democratic issue. [The Center for Journalism Ethics of the University of Wisconsin-Madison intends to encourage the highest standards in journalism ethics worldwide]
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Government has expressed concern at the lack of consensus among the media fraternity over the issue of self-regulation. Information and Media Minister Chushi Kasanda says the issue of self-regulation is entirely upon the media as the fraternity is better placed to decide on how it wants to be.
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A government that encourages medias' self-regulation... [Solwezi Today is a business magazine that highlights developments and trends in business and commerce in North-western Zambia and other towns throughout Zambia]
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