UN / WORLD PRESS FREEDOM DAY
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STORY: UN / WORLD PRESS FREEDOM DAY
TRT: 01:59
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 03 MAY 2018, NEW YORK CITY / RECENT
SHOTLIST:
RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior, UN headquarters
03 MAY 2018, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, conference room
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Alison Smale, Under-Secretary-General for Global Communications:
“Journalism today faces a multitude of threats, including censorship, intimidation and direct physical attacks against journalists and media workers. Increasingly the press is being discredited with accusations of engaging in engaging in fake news. While each of these interconnected threats needs to be addressed, ensuring the safety of journalists and all media practitioners, is essential. As the horrific and deadly attacks in Afghanistan just a few days ago show, their lives are often at risk for carrying out their duties to inform everybody else.”
4. Wide shot, audience
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Melissa Kent, Journalist, CBC Radio-Canada:
“The difference between truth and lies is the difference between democracies and dictators. Press freedom is critical to upholding the truth. It is a pillar of any healthy democracy. Like the canary in a coal mine, when things start to go badly for us, it won’t be long before they start going badly for everyone. Because journalists aren’t attacked by governments because of what they don’t want the journalists find out, journalists are attacked because of what the government doesn’t want the public to find out.”
6. Wide shot, dais
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Nicole Stremlau, Head of the Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy (PCMLP), University of Oxford:
“Our report highlighted that public trust in the credibility of traditional media is also declining. So, globally we are seeing trends of delegitimizing the work of journalists, the rise of discourse around fake news, and a growing tendency for an intolerance of differences. But at the same time, we are also seeing strong indications that media freedom is greatly priced and respected by people, as seen in the recent protests and citizen mobilization in several countries over the murder of journalists. So, it seems that people are in fact deeply concerned that there are these negative trends.”
STORYLINE:
At an event marking World Press Freedom Day, the Under-Secretary-General for Global Communications, Alison Smale, today (3 May) said journalism “faces a multitude of threats, including censorship, intimidation and direct physical attacks against journalists and media workers.”
Smale noted that “increasingly the press is being discredited with accusations of engaging in engaging in fake news” and said that “while each of these interconnected threats needs to be addressed, ensuring the safety of journalists and all media practitioners, is essential.”
Recalling the “horrific and deadly” killing of ten journalists on Monday in Afghanistan, Smale said journalist’s lives “are often at risk for carrying out their duties to inform everybody else.”
Speaking on behalf of the United Nations Correspondents Association (UNCA), Melissa Kent, of CBC Radio-Canada said, “the difference between truth and lies is the difference between democracies and dictators.”
Press freedom, she said, “is critical to upholding the truth” and is “a pillar of any healthy democracy.”
Kent said, “like the canary in a coal mine, when things start to go badly for us, it won’t be long before they start going badly for everyone. Because journalists aren’t attacked by governments because of what they don’t want the journalists find out, journalists are attacked because of what the government doesn’t want the public to find out.”
Nicole Stremlau, of the University of Oxford and author of the UNESCO report “World Trends in Freedom of Expression and Media Development,” said “globally we are seeing trends of delegitimizing the work of journalists, the rise of discourse around fake news, and a growing tendency for an intolerance of differences.”
At the same time, she said, “we are also seeing strong indications that media freedom is greatly priced and respected by people, as seen in the recent protests and citizen mobilization in several countries over the murder of journalists. So, it seems that people are in fact deeply concerned that there are these negative trends.”
UNESCO has partnered with 40 news organizations to launch a campaign that encourages readers to look beyond their usual newspaper and to actively engage with alternative news sources. The campaign’s message is: ‘Read more. Listen more. Understand more. It all starts with a free press,’ and it was featured at the global celebration of the day in Accra, Ghana.
The theme this year’s World Press Freedom Day is ‘Keeping Power in Check: Media, Justice and The Rule of Law’ and it highlights the importance of an enabling legal environment for press freedom, and gives special attention to the role of an independent judiciary in ensuring legal guarantees for press freedom and the prosecution of crimes against journalists.
TRT: 01:59
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 03 MAY 2018, NEW YORK CITY / RECENT
SHOTLIST:
RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior, UN headquarters
03 MAY 2018, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, conference room
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Alison Smale, Under-Secretary-General for Global Communications:
“Journalism today faces a multitude of threats, including censorship, intimidation and direct physical attacks against journalists and media workers. Increasingly the press is being discredited with accusations of engaging in engaging in fake news. While each of these interconnected threats needs to be addressed, ensuring the safety of journalists and all media practitioners, is essential. As the horrific and deadly attacks in Afghanistan just a few days ago show, their lives are often at risk for carrying out their duties to inform everybody else.”
4. Wide shot, audience
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Melissa Kent, Journalist, CBC Radio-Canada:
“The difference between truth and lies is the difference between democracies and dictators. Press freedom is critical to upholding the truth. It is a pillar of any healthy democracy. Like the canary in a coal mine, when things start to go badly for us, it won’t be long before they start going badly for everyone. Because journalists aren’t attacked by governments because of what they don’t want the journalists find out, journalists are attacked because of what the government doesn’t want the public to find out.”
6. Wide shot, dais
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Nicole Stremlau, Head of the Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy (PCMLP), University of Oxford:
“Our report highlighted that public trust in the credibility of traditional media is also declining. So, globally we are seeing trends of delegitimizing the work of journalists, the rise of discourse around fake news, and a growing tendency for an intolerance of differences. But at the same time, we are also seeing strong indications that media freedom is greatly priced and respected by people, as seen in the recent protests and citizen mobilization in several countries over the murder of journalists. So, it seems that people are in fact deeply concerned that there are these negative trends.”
STORYLINE:
At an event marking World Press Freedom Day, the Under-Secretary-General for Global Communications, Alison Smale, today (3 May) said journalism “faces a multitude of threats, including censorship, intimidation and direct physical attacks against journalists and media workers.”
Smale noted that “increasingly the press is being discredited with accusations of engaging in engaging in fake news” and said that “while each of these interconnected threats needs to be addressed, ensuring the safety of journalists and all media practitioners, is essential.”
Recalling the “horrific and deadly” killing of ten journalists on Monday in Afghanistan, Smale said journalist’s lives “are often at risk for carrying out their duties to inform everybody else.”
Speaking on behalf of the United Nations Correspondents Association (UNCA), Melissa Kent, of CBC Radio-Canada said, “the difference between truth and lies is the difference between democracies and dictators.”
Press freedom, she said, “is critical to upholding the truth” and is “a pillar of any healthy democracy.”
Kent said, “like the canary in a coal mine, when things start to go badly for us, it won’t be long before they start going badly for everyone. Because journalists aren’t attacked by governments because of what they don’t want the journalists find out, journalists are attacked because of what the government doesn’t want the public to find out.”
Nicole Stremlau, of the University of Oxford and author of the UNESCO report “World Trends in Freedom of Expression and Media Development,” said “globally we are seeing trends of delegitimizing the work of journalists, the rise of discourse around fake news, and a growing tendency for an intolerance of differences.”
At the same time, she said, “we are also seeing strong indications that media freedom is greatly priced and respected by people, as seen in the recent protests and citizen mobilization in several countries over the murder of journalists. So, it seems that people are in fact deeply concerned that there are these negative trends.”
UNESCO has partnered with 40 news organizations to launch a campaign that encourages readers to look beyond their usual newspaper and to actively engage with alternative news sources. The campaign’s message is: ‘Read more. Listen more. Understand more. It all starts with a free press,’ and it was featured at the global celebration of the day in Accra, Ghana.
The theme this year’s World Press Freedom Day is ‘Keeping Power in Check: Media, Justice and The Rule of Law’ and it highlights the importance of an enabling legal environment for press freedom, and gives special attention to the role of an independent judiciary in ensuring legal guarantees for press freedom and the prosecution of crimes against journalists.
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