{"id":360,"date":"2025-02-09T20:26:21","date_gmt":"2025-02-09T20:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/journalismtrustinitiative.org\/app-jti\/?page_id=360"},"modified":"2025-02-13T00:26:10","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T00:26:10","slug":"cwa-no-17493","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/journalismtrustinitiative.org\/app-jti\/cwa-no-17493\/","title":{"rendered":"CWA No. 17493"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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I. Introduction<\/strong><\/h1>

Quoted from the approved JTI Project Plan:<\/em><\/p>

The ultimate goal of the \u201cJournalism Trust Initiative\u201d (JTI) is to support the universal, individual freedom of opinion through access to information and independent, pluralistic media. By safeguarding professional standards, a healthier digital media landscape should emerge, from which each citizen and media worker, but also societies at large, could benefit.<\/p>

In our digital age, it has become increasingly difficult to distinguish information shaped by vested interests from that produced by independent and fair news professionals. An open and honest public debate, aimed at informing the general public, is more and more difficult to sustain, especially when propaganda and \u2018fake news\u2019 seem on the rise and trust in institutions and the media is declining.<\/p>

To face those challenges, in line with the fight for freedom of information, this Initiative aims at concretely enhancing and safeguarding journalism worthy of this name, complying with ethical rules, approved journalistic methods, and guarantees of independence. In a context of growing distrust towards the media, we consider it important to set up a transparent framework to promote principles of ethical journalism, both to provide guidance to the public and to encourage news providers to raise their professional norms and practices.<\/p>

We put the term \u201ctrust\u201d at the centre of JTI because it signifies the level of credibility that journalism enjoys \u2013 or the lack thereof. This trust has of course to be earned. Journalists work in the public interest only if they act as \u201ctrusted third parties,\u201d spreading information that enables people to be aware of, and fully comprehend, the challenges they face in their environment, and to form their own opinion.<\/p>

Trust is deeply intertwined with transparency, responsibility, and accountability.<\/p>

We believe in self-regulation of journalism, which requires agreed norms, standards or equivalents that function as a verifiable set of rules and benchmarks, and that define the best practice of our profession. This is what JTI aims to provide.<\/p>

It also means implementation through tangible benefits to incentivise compliance.<\/p>

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II. Preamble<\/strong><\/h1>

This introductory declaration reflects the spirit and philosophy upon which the document was drafted by the consensus of a broad coalition of media companies, professional bodies and media development organisations. In this preamble the authors and stakeholders of the process wish to express their mutual understanding of the ethical dimension of journalistic activity as follows in this preamble.<\/p>

Acknowledging the fact that values are not always objectively measurable, it is considered even more important to state them clearly.<\/p>

Wherever possible, these principles are further detailed and translated into verifiable criteria in The Standard found in Chapter V.<\/p>

Compliance with this CEN Workshop Agreement requires a pledge and an explicit commitment to both the principles outlined in the following preamble and to the Standard that implements them.<\/p>

Declaration on Ethical and Professional Journalism<\/strong><\/h2>

Please refer to the\u00a0JTI Pledge<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>

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III. The Scope<\/strong><\/h1>

The JTI Standard that begin below in Chapter V have two main sections: \u201cIdentity and Transparency\u201d [Section A] and \u201cProfessionalism and Accountability\u201d [Section B].<\/p>

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The first section (A) has been drafted to define standards of \u201cIdentity and Transparency\u201d.<\/p>

The JTI promotes the disclosure of information regarding:<\/p>