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RIGHTS,

RESPONSIBILITIES,
AND
ACCOUNTABILITIES OF
COMMUNICATORS AND JOURNALISTS
BY: GROUP 5
• In modern times, the media have exerted
enormous power and assumed a powerful
position unprecedented in human history to
serve as valuable means for the articulation on a
large scale of popular aspirations and problems,
of entertainment and pleasure, of advertising
and economic information, of shared strengths
and weaknesses.
• In this sense, the rights, responsibilities, and
accountabilities have to be established to
safeguard the integrity of media and protection
of the general public in the form of
accountability.
• In the name of freedom of expression, abuses
happen and certain aspects remain largely
unaccountable.

• Accountability is a necessity for


communicators and journalists.
• Communicators and Journalists have rights,
responsibilities, and accountabilities to exercise
and live by and which provide guarantees
against censorship and protection of freedom of
expression, safeguarding the confidentiality of
journalistic sources, and ensuring that
information held by the government can be
timely and easily accessed by the public.

• There are also general media laws and


regulatory frameworks at both national and
international level to comply with.
• It is a Responsibility of communicators and
journalists “to ensure that citizens have
convenient access to all media which is
subject to just and fair law and universally
recognized principles of human rights”.

• The National Union of Journalists (NUJ)


provides a sample of a code of ethics in
1936.
NUJ CODE OF CONDUCT

• The NUJ’s Code of Conduct has set out the main


principles of British and Irish Journalism since
1936. The code is part of the rules and all
journalists joining the union must sign that they
will strive to adhere to it. Members of the
National Union of Journalists are expected to
abide by the following professional principles:
A JOURNALIST:

1. At all times upholds and defends the principle of


media freedom, the right of freedom of expression and
the right of the public to be informed
2. Strives to ensure that information disseminated is
honestly conveyed, accurate, and fair
3. Does his/her utmost to correct harmful inaccuracies
4. Differentiates between fact and opinion
5. Obtains material by honest, straight forward, and
open means, with the exception of investigations that are
both overwhelmingly in the public interest and which
involve evidence that cannot be obtained by
6. Does nothing to intrude into anybody’s
private life, grief, or distress unless justified by
overriding consideration of the public interest
7. Protects the identity of sources who supply
information in confidence and material gathered
in the course of his/her work
8. Resists threats and other inducements to
influence, distort, or suppress information and
takes no unfair personal advantage of
information gained in the course of his/her duties
before the information is public knowledge
9. Produces no material likely to lead to hatred
or discrimination on the grounds of a person’s
age, gender, race, color, creed, legal status,
10. Does not by way of statement, voice, or
appearance endorse by advertisement any
commercial product or service save for the
promotion of his/her own work or of the medium by
which he/she is employed
11. Shall normally seek the consent of an
appropriate adult when interviewing or
photographing a child for a story about his/her
welfare
12. Avoids plagiarism
The NUJ believes a journalist has the right to
refuse an assignment or be identified as the
author of editorial that would break the
letter or spirit of the code.

The NUJ will fully support any journalist disciplined


for asserting his/her right to act according to the
code.

Further, the United Nations, Parliamentary


Assembly issued Resolution 428 (1970),
containing a declaration on mass
communication media and human rights.
• It is the duty of the press and other mass media
to discharge their functions with a sense of
responsibility toward the community and toward
the individual citizens. For this purpose, it is
desirable to institute (where not already done):

A.) Professional training for journalists under the


responsibility of editors and journalists;
B.) A professional code of ethics for journalists;
this should cover, inter alia, such matters as
accurate and well-balanced reporting, rectification
of inaccurate information, clear distinction
between reported information and comments,
avoidance of calumny, respect for privacy,
respect for the right to a fair trial as guaranteed
by Article 6 of the European Convention on
Human Rights; and

C.) Press councils empowered to investigate and


even to censure instances of unprofessional
Code of Ethics of Communicators and
Journalists
• Communicators and Journalists have codes of
ethics and professional standards based on self-
regulation.

• The general rule is respect for truthfulness


and respect for people’s rights.

• The United Nations Educational, Scientific,


and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) considers the
code of ethics as being at the heart of good
communication and journalism for it fosters
• UNESCO argues that codes of ethics, under their
different denominations, are an essential instrument of
media self-regulation.
• They are a fundamental point of reference, guiding
journalists on their role, their rights and accountabilities
and how they can best perform their job- all while
representing a standard against which their work can be
assessed.
• With the code of ethics, journalists are served;
publishers and owners of media outlets are protected
against legal claims and critics.
• The Code of Ethics contributes to the accuracy,
fairness, and reliability of information, therefore
also benefiting the general public as consumers of
information which form part of the basis of individuals,
THANK YOU 

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