Manuals

Guides, handbooks and tool-kits released by institutions and NGOs, providing journalists and activists with useful background informations, summaries and advice

Press Freedom Police Codex

The Codex formulates in eight clauses how the police and journalists can cooperate

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Understanding Information Disorder

An essential guide by Claire Draft, First Draft US director and co-founder

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Fact Checking vs. Fake News

A guidebook with tips, tools, and good practices on fact checking and debunking

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Reducing Exposure to SLAPP Lawsuits: an Activist’s Guide

In this booklet, prepared for the Protect the Protest task force by the Civil Liberties Defense Center, EarthRights International, the First Amendment Project, and Greenpeace USA, activists and journalist can find concrete help through comprehensive information, definitions, and questions about strategic lawsuits against public participation

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Regulatory Authorities for Electronic Media and Media Literacy – Comparative Analysis of the Best European Practices

This study analyses “the best European practices of promoting media literacy”, highlighting the vital role of the regulatory authority for electronic media in fostering a prolific ground for ‘self-sustainable projects’

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Journalism, 'Fake News' and Disinformation: A Handbook for Journalism Education and Training

As a part of the “Global Initiative for Excellence in Journalism Education” UNESCO published an handbook on journalism and disinformation that can be used as a model curriculum.

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Information Disorder: The Essential Glossary

A short glossary of necessary terminology on information disorder for journalists

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Trust in Ethical Journalism. The Key to Media Features

This issue of Ethics in the News looks at how the communications revolution is continuing to pose more questions than answers over a public crisis of confidence, both in democracy and in sources of public information

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A Short Guide to the History of ‘Fake News’ and Disinformation

A resource published by the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) plotting the evolution of the current crisis on an international timeline, highlighting historic moments stretching from Cleopatra to Cambridge Analytica

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Media and Trafficking in Human Beings Guidelines

These guidelines published by the International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD) aim to help editors and reporters to better understand the issues related to trafficking human beings and to shape their stories in ways that avoid the dangers lurking in an aggressive and competitive media landscape

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