A code for the road: the ethics of reporting Africa

Beckett, Charlie (2010) A code for the road: the ethics of reporting Africa [Online resource]

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I asked the Polis Summer School students to finish their 12 day course by giving me a code for the road. Tell me, I said, what should be the guiding principles for journalism about people who are suffering or are from other countries. Here are the ideas from different groups of students for some ethical guidelines. For what it’s worth, my suggestion was that ‘there must always be a local narrator of any story’.