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Charlie Beckett

July 20th, 2010

A code for the road: the ethics of reporting Africa

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Estimated reading time: 5 minutes

Charlie Beckett

July 20th, 2010

A code for the road: the ethics of reporting Africa

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Estimated reading time: 5 minutes

I asked the Polis Summer School students to finish their 12 day course by giving me a code for the road. Tell me, I said, what should be the guiding principles for journalism about people who are suffering or are from other countries. Here are the ideas from different groups of students  for some ethical guidelines. For what it’s worth, my suggestion was that ‘there must always be a local narrator of any story’.

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Charlie Beckett

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