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Can a journalist be neutral?

July 18th, 2008 · No Comments

After 18 days attending the Summer Academy, we once again faced the question that most of us had on the first day: Can we as journalists be neutral in our reporting? Or do our feelings and tendencies that we have like anybody else make it hard to be neutral?

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Tags: Media Ethics · Newsroom Diary

To observe or to comment?

July 10th, 2008 · No Comments

During the first days of IIJ Summer Academy all of us were given the question ”why did I become a journalist?”. Many of us went back to the beginning of his/her job trying to find answers for this question. We heard different opinions, wonderful and innocent statements about what it means to be journalists, but [...]

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Tags: Media Ethics