Recommendations for coronavirus coverage
Tbilisi. Media Checker publishes material of Magda Gugulashvili: Recommendations for coronavirus coverage.
“Spread of the new coronavirus has posed a number of challenges to the media in terms of adhering to professional standards. Besides universally recognized principles of ethical journalism, such as accuracy, fairness and impartiality, international guidelines call on the media to exercise caution when using terminology, selecting photo/video material, publishing statistical data, to think about necessity of identifying infected respondents and disclosing personal information,to avoid encouragement of a racist, discriminatory discussion and hate speech, to refrain from stigmatizing people”, - is stated on the website of the organization.
Source: www.mediachecker.ge
