Journalistic Ethics and the Strache Affair: Interview with Tom Law (EJN) on the ethics of the Strache video
By Daniel Leon
The ECPMF spoke this morning with Tom Law, deputy director of the London-based Ethical Journalism Network (EJN) about the Strache Affair about the ethics of producing and disseminating the Strache video.
Austrian Parliament in Vienna.
Public Domain Photo
Now we know that the Strache video, published by the Süddeutsche Zeitung and Der Spiegel on May 17th, had one of the highest impact that journalistic reporting can have: the dissolution of a country’s government. The identity of the video’s authors remain unknown, including their motivation. Moreover, the video is from 2017 and its dissemination occurred two years later. These facts leads…
