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by Jane Whyatt and Jessica Jacques
Cover of the report by INSI and the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. Photo: Jane Whyatt
As a reporter, what should you do when a drowning refugee child reaches out to you? Put down the camera and rescue him? Or carry on filming, so that the pictures might provoke a political solution? Daily dilemmas such as this take a toll on journalists’ emotions. They can lead to feelings of guilt and helplessness, and an inability to carry on with normal life. The reporter’s moral compass is knocked out of kilter, so that he or…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
by Jane Whyatt and Jessica JacquesAs a reporter, what should you do when a drowning refugee child reaches out to you? Put down the camera and rescue him? Or carry on filming, so that the pictures might provoke a political solution? Daily dilemmas such as this take a toll on journalists’ emotions. They can lead to feelings of guilt and helplessness, and an inability to carry on with normal life. The reporter’s moral compass is knocked out of kilter, so that he or she no longer knows what is right and what is wrong.
Moral injury has been identified in reporters…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
by Jane Whyatt and Jessica JacquesAs a reporter, what should you do when, while covering the refugee crisis in Lesbos for example, you find yourself confronted with people in desperate need of everything? How deeply do you get involved? Do you give money? Do you help finding a new home? Actually, do you put down your camera or carry on filming, so that the pictures might provoke a political solution? Daily dilemmas such as this take a toll on journalists’ emotions. They can lead to feelings of guilt and helplessness, and an inability to carry on with normal life. The…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
Last week, the UK government announced its plans for a new Data Protection Bill that would give people “more control over their personal data” and enable them to be be “better protected in the digital age.” LSE’s Sonia Livingstone looks the implications of the Bill for child rights and highlights areas that might need more work. Unexpectedly for many interested […]
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Media Policy Project
by Jane Whyatt
Turkish police have carried out early morning raids at the homes of 35 opponents of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.The reason: they use an encryption service called ByLock to protect their sources’ identity and keep their journalistic material confidential. Thirty-five warrants were issued. Nine journalists have been detained.
Hunting down journalists: Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Now President Erdoğan has decided that using ByLock is a sign of complicity with the Gülen movement and therefore connected to terrorism. Fethullah Gülen is a Turkish religious leader who lives in the USA. President Erdoğan blames Gülen for the alleged military coup attempt…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
Fake news, its causes and what to do about are some of the key issues that we plan to address as part of the LSE Commission on Truth, Trust and Technology that we will launch later this year. The Commission will examine the wider crisis in the quality and credibility of information in the digital age. Fake news isn’t new, but […]
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Media Policy Project
by Jane Whyatt
Journalist Hamza Yalçin, who has dual Turkish and Swedish nationality, is behind bars in Spain after being arrested at an airport in Barcelona. The Turkish government is seeking to extradite Yalçin, and put his name on the Interpol list of wanted people. As he presented his passport at the airport, ready to board a flight to London, the authorities handed him over to the police. He was detained and later appeared before the national court (Audienca Nacional).
Hamza Yalçin, editor of "Odak Dergisi" (picture: Odak Dergisi)
Fifty-nine year old Yalçin has lived in Sweden for 33 years and was…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
During the recent announcement of a new Data Protection Bill by the UK Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS), the Minister for Digital – Matt Hancock – stated that the bill would “give us one of the most robust, yet dynamic, sets of data laws in the world.” In this post, Orla Lynskey, Assistant Professor of Law at […]
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Media Policy Project
by Jane Whyatt
A German newspaper whose Turkey correspondent has been jailed and accused is taking the Turkish government to the European Court of Human Rights.
Deniz Yücel (Jouralistenwatch/Flickr)
Deniz Yücel of “Die Welt” is accused of “terrorist propaganda” and “inciting the population to violence”. He has been behind bars in solitary confinement for more than six months, since February 2017 in pre-trial detention.
German Justice Minister Heiko Maas is also backing the case: “We will try everything in order to get a fair trial for Deniz Yücel“ he stresses.
On behalf of “Die Welt”, managing director Stephanie Kaspar commented https://www.welt.de/politik/ausland/article167392296/WeltN24-legt-im-Fall-Yuecel-Beschwerde-in-Strassburg-ein.html: “We will use all…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
by Martin Hoffman
The Green Party of Saxony, Germany, urges justice and police to do more to protect journalists. The Interior Ministry of the State will order the investigation of more cases of attacks on journalists.
ECPMF-fact finding mission in Germany investigating attacks on journalists during right-wing populist events shows an increasing danger.
Better late than never: the Interior Ministry of the State of Saxony has now announced it will order the prosecution officers to investigate another 17 cases of journalists who have been attacked. Only a small minority of the attacks on journalists in 2015 and 2016 have so far been investigated…
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European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
