Project: „Strengthening regional print medias capacity in observing journalistic ethics”

Implementation period: January – December 2011

Financing organization: Civil Rights Defenders

Goal of the project:

Enhancing the professionalism level of local print press journalists for observing ethical norms.

Objectives:

1. Encouraging local press journalists to observe ethical norms;

2. Training local print press journalists on the observance of deontology norms and provisions of „API’s Guidelines on Style containing ethical norms”;

3. Revising and re-publishing „API’s Guidelines on Style containing ethical norms”;

4. Elaborating a research on the observance of ethical journalism in Republic of Moldova and API’s work plan for the period 2012-2013 in the view of improving the existent situation at the chapter related to the infringement of ethical norms by local print press journalists.

Activities:

- Monitoring 15 local newspapers, including from Transnistrian region and TAU Gagauz-Yeri, in the view of observing the presumption of innocence, human rights and ways of placing hidden publicity;

- Training local press journalists and editors on producing controversial subjects (the presumption of innocence, human rights, placing hidden publicity);

- Revising and re-publishing „API’s Guidelines on Style containing ethical norms”;

- Elaborating a research on the observance of ethical journalism in local print press and API’s work plan for the period 2012-2013 in the view of improving the quality of the editorial content in local newspapers and observance of journalist’s deontology norms.

News at this chapter: Presumption of innocence, subject of a seminar organized by API