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Migration: Global Report on Journalism's Biggest Test in 2015: Press release
21 December 2015
"An international report on media and the global migration and refugee crisis, issued today to coincide with International Migrants Day (December 18), says journalists often fail to tell the full story and routinely fall into propaganda traps laid by politicians.
The report, Moving Stories, is published by the Ethical Journalism Network and reviews media coverage of migration in the European Union and in 14 countries across the globe.
“Around the world media coverage is often politically led with journalists following an agenda dominated by loose language and talk of invasion and swarms,” said Aidan White, EJN Director. “But at other moments the story is laced with humanity, empathy and a focus on the suffering of those involved.”
See the full text:
Migration: Global Report on Journalism's Biggest Test in 2015: Press release (link)
From the
Ethical Journalism Network:
Full report (link) includes:
The View from Brussels: Missed opportunities to call the European Union to account by Tony Bunyan.
Bulgaria - A study in media Sensationalism by Rossen Bossev and Maria Cheresehva,
Italy - A charter for tolerant journalism: Media take centre stage in the Mediterranean drama by Yasha Maccanico and
United Kingdom - How journalism plays follow-my-leader in the rhetoric of negativity by Zak Suffee
And see:
Where media fails on the reporting of migrants and refugees (Guardian, link):
"Report highlights mistakes - and some malevolence - in the coverage of the crisis"