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’.
Charlie Beckett
July 20th, 2010
A code for the road: the ethics of reporting Africa
A code for the road: the ethics of reporting Africa
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Wow … now we just need to get journalists and comms people into the room with these young people and make them listen. What an inspiring response to the POLIS summer school