| Output/Results: |
While preparing the seminar, the MMDC members got in touch with regional journalists and their self-regulation bodies, invited them to participate in the seminar, and jointly worked out the programme of the seminar.
During the seminar the following issues were discussed with the help and supervision of the experts-moderators:
1) Key ethical challenges that Russian media professionals face (moderated by Mr. Yuri Kazakov)
2) Mapping out current and emerging ethical standards and practices of Russian media professionals (moderated by Mr. Yuri Kazakov)
3) Different Russian self-regulatory models (moderated by Mr. Yuri Kazakov)
4) Ethic standards and practices in Western Europe (moderated by Mr Gojko Bervar, Slovenia, and Mr Ronan Brady, Ireland)
The seminar was very dynamic, combining presentations by experts with open discussions and trainings with a detailed analysis of case studies (a few publications from Russian and international media were considered as examples).
The seminar was aimed not at educating the participants on a specific subject, but to discuss with them particular problems that they face in their work as regulators and to find best practices for self-regulation in Russia.
The outcomes of the seminar can be considered novel and unique: For the first time representatives of self-regulation bodies from different regions in the Russian Federation met in one place to share their experience and find solutions to the numerous practical problems they are facing when setting up their organism, elaboration professional standards and procedural mechanisms and to consider complaints about the press or simply to discuss ways of development of local media communities.
The participants considered it important to feel the support of their colleagues and learn from their experience. For example, the representative of the Krasnoyarsk journalistic community, who had come to the seminar specifically to familiarize himself with self-regulation, expressed his intention to set up a Jury on Ethics in his region.
At the end of the discussion local expert Yuri Kazakov proposed to colleagues a few rules concerning self-regulation body activity.
6 rules, based on personal experience, how to make functioning of the self-regulation body most effective:
1) Do not let anyone use you, and do not refer to your self-regulation body while representing interests of other groups;
2) Do not work in the majority’s mode of thought;
3) Do not apply other Codes of professional conduct, while adopting a decision;
4) Do not substitute ethic expertise with any other (legal, linguistic expertise, etc.);
5) Do not provide law-enforcement bodies or authorities with expertise and decisions;
6) Constantly verify the level of your moral authority in the community. |
| Participants: |
Galina Petrova, member of the Council on professional ethics of Oryel Regional Jury of Russian Union of Journalists, Oryel.
Valentina Novoshchinskaya, Chairperson of the Council on professional ethics of Oryel Regional Jury of Russian Union of Journalists, editor of the Internet group “OryelInformBureau”, Oryel.
Oleg Smuglov, member of the Council on professional ethics of Oryel Regional Jury of Russian Union of Journalists, radio journalist of 2TRC “Oryel”, Oryel.
Galina Vasiljevna Kulichkina, Perm Union of Journalists, teacher, journalist, candidate of philological sciences, Perm.
Sergey Tupitsyn, Perm State TV complany “T7”.
Boris Vaulin, member of Voronezh Regional Jury on Informational Disputes, Voronezh.
Galina Arapova, member of Voronezh Regional Jury on Informational Disputes, Director of the Mass Media Defense Centre, Voronezh.
Marina Zalata, Mass Media Defence Centre, Voronezh
Lev Kroychik, Professor, Chairman of Voronezh Regional Jury on Informational Disputes, Voronezh.
Alexandr Yagodkin, member of Voronezh Regional Jury on Informational Disputes, Voronezh.
Vasiliy Vladimirovich Nelyubin, Head of Administration Board of Krasnoyarsk Regional Union of Journalists, Krasnoyarsk.
Lyudmila Pashinina, member of the Grand Jury on Complaints on the Press of Ryazan region.
Roman Sivtsov, Head of Special Project Department of Ryazan Bureau “Novaya Gazeta”, Director of the “Creative-Media”, Ryazan.
Irina Matveyeva, member of the Grand Jury on Complaints on the Press of Ryazan region, press-secretary of Ryazan Regional Court, Ryazan.
Gennadiy Shershnev, Director General of the “Argumenty”, Kirov.
Aleksey Pankin, former Ombudsman of the newspaper “Izvestia”, Moscow.
Vitaliy Chelyshev, Mr Vitaly Chelyshev, Deputy to the Editor-in-Chief, The Journalist, Moscow.
Sophia Khavkina, member of the Council on Informational Disputes of Nizhni Novgorod region, Nizhni Novgorod.
Igor Sobol, member of the Council on Informational Disputes of Nizhni Novgorod region, Nizhni Novgorod.
Margarita Ledovskikh, Mass Media Defence Centre, media lawyer, Voronezh
Olga Brener, “Novaya Zageta” in Voronezh”, journalist, member of working group of the project “Media ethics”, Voronezh
German Poltaev, “Voronezhskiy Courier”, journalist, member of the Regional Jury on informational disputes of Voronezh region, Voronezh
Viktor Khorolskiy, Professor of the journalist department of the Voronezh State University, teacher of media ethics, Voronezh.
Aleksey Frolov, Ryazan Bureau “Novaya Gazeta”, Editor-in-chief, Ryazan |
