Work Station 6: Eyewitness media and ethics in the wake of Charlie Hebdo

Introduction

In the recent terror attack at the office of the French satire magazine Charlie Hebdo, many of the early photos and videos emerged on Twitter and Instagram, posted by people nearby in pubs, offices and cafés.

At this SubQuest you will train your listening comprehension and critically discuss the effect of eyewitness accounts in the news.

Task

Eyewittness in the wake of Charlie Hebdo

Eyewitness media has become a crucial part of how journalists report breaking news, allowing us unprecedented access to first-hand reports as events unfold.

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Process

Eyewitness media and ethics
in the wake of Charlie Hebdo

Eyewitness media has become a crucial part of how journalists report breaking news, allowing us unprecedented access to first-hand reports as events unfold.

In the recent terror attack at the office of the French satire magazine Charlie Hebdo, many of the early photos and videos emerged on Twitter and Instagram, posted by people nearby in pubs, offices and cafés. 

In this week’s podcast, Abigail Edge discusses about the ethical questions around sourcing, crediting and graphic imagery, with:

Jenni Sargent, director, Eyewitness Media Hub

Mark Frankel, assistant editor of social news, BBC

Malachy Browne, managing editor and europe anchor, Reported.ly

 

Listen to:

https://soundcloud.com/journalismnews/eyewitness-media-and-ethics-in-the-wake-of-charlie-hebdo



https://www.journalism.co.uk

 



In this week’s podcast, Abigail Edge discusses about the ethical questions around sourcing, crediting and graphic imagery, with:

Jenni Sargent, director, Eyewitness Media Hub

Mark Frankel, assistant editor of social news, BBC

Malachy Browne, managing editor and europe anchor, Reported.ly

listen to:

https://soundcloud.com/journalismnews/eyewitness-media-and-ethics-in-the-wake-of-charlie-hebdo

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Conclusion

After having worked on this topic you will be able to give a statement on the ethics of shooting pictures of riots, scene of crime or of accidents ....

You might be able to sound a bit more authentic after having listened to the podcast a couple of times and this will make you feel more at ease when contributing to the ficticious editorial meeting, which is the  main task of the WebQuest Defending Democratic Rights: Freedom of Speech in the aftermath of attacks on Charlie Hebdo

Credits

Credits & Reference

(still work in progress Mar 21, 2015)

This WebQuest is part of a larger project and has been designed by Chr. Günther, M. Friderritzi, M. Bär

This research project has been created by In-Service-Teacher-Trainees of the course Fachseminar Englisch /Mai 14-15Lecturer: M.Teichmann / Zentrum für schulpraktische Lehrerausbildung Solingen Gy/Ge.

Feedback,encouragement and criticism send to Teichmannmonika@arcor.de

Sources of material:

Introduction pic: twitter.com/guardian/status/552881951141806083

Teacher Page

Erwartungshorizont – Entwurf – Stud 7 WS 6 – Eyewitness media and ethics in the wake of Charlie Hebdo –

Class Test
AFB1 - Hörverstehen
1) What is meant with the ethical question around crediting in this podcast?
geschlossene Hörverstehensaufgabe
EWH: Malachy Browne: Content needs to be verified before it gets published (online). How can this be
managed?
- Check the original source
- Check the original location (geolocated content – Instagram)
- Check the new history of the person uploading the content (twitter lists, recent instagram posts)
- Difficulties: sources who start to be defending suspects online
AFB 2 – (Textgrundlage, zB Transkription Abschnitt über graphic images)
Explain what is meant with the ethical question around graphic imagery in this podcast?
EWH: graphic images reveal cruel violence which does not need to be shown explicitly in order to protect the
audience [versus] the cruel truth has to be depicted by all means because it is fact
AFB 3
Discuss the Frankel’s decision “We took a fairly swift position on this that we were not going to use it unedited
or unfiltered because it showed a moment of contiguous violence were a police officer had been shot in the
head”
Pro:EWH:
Pro
Con

Pro

  • audience need to be protected
  • to tell what happened impacts enough
  • showing this kind of violence leeds to brutalization of society
  • children might watch it accidentally
  • images could be used to glorify the attack
  • photos and statements are shared over all kind of different platforms worldwide anyways
  • some sources might actually want to stay anonymous because they feel themselves to
    be at risk if their identities were revealed

Con

  • audience has a right to see the truthset in the right context it displays the “right”message
  • the responsibility lies within the user, the publisher only makes an offer
  • people are drilled to automatically upload unusual images from unusual situations tosocial media.
    Thus official media have the responsibility to display facts in the right context

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