UNESCO Representative in Jordan: Protecting Journalism is a Shared Responsibility Requiring Transparency and Trust
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UNESCO Representative to Jordan, Min-Jeong Kim (Noha Bawazir), emphasized on Saturday the need to enhance transparency and accountability in journalistic work, noting the importance of trust in journalists as reliable professionals who help citizens navigate the complexities of information and make informed decisions.
During the Future of Media and Communication Forum, Bawazir stated that protecting journalism is a shared responsibility that requires sustainable business models, strong professional standards, ethical use of technology, and political trust, alongside providing an enabling environment that allows quality journalism to flourish.
For his part, the General Secretary of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), Anthony Bellanger, affirmed that content, accountability, and responsibility must be under the control and supervision of a human editorial room managed by journalists, stressing the importance of protecting jobs, copyrights, and sources in light of the use of artificial intelligence.
Bellanger said that one of the most important issues for the IFJ is content, emphasizing the necessity for content, accountability, and responsibility to be subject to the control and supervision of a human editorial room by journalists.
He added that the Federation resorts to courts in many countries to protect journalists, warning that if jobs are deleted or completely eliminated, there will be no journalists, which necessitates their protection.
He pointed out that copyright and the protection of sources are of paramount importance to the International Federation of Journalists.
