Algeria: necessary discussion on ethics in the media
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ALGIERS - Journalists from different media in Algeria have "recommended" Tuesday that b "a national debate on ethics" in the media is held in this country, following a seminar organized by the Algiers’ Centre of International Federation of Journalists (IFJ).
- "We recommend the appointment of national discussion of all media on ethics in the Algerian media," said a text published after two days of discussions between journalists, audiovisual media or press, experts in information sciences and communication and representatives of trade unions of journalists.
Algeria has some 80 daily public and private, French or Arabic, some of which draw more than 500,000 copies cons a few thousand for others, have stressed the participants.
The seminar on "Ethics / self-regulation of the press in Algeria" particularly noted "the absence of independent regulator of the media" and offers "the rehabilitation of the proceedings of the High Council of Ethics.
Created in 2000, this body elected by journalists plays the role of mediator, has stopped functioning for lack of means four years later.
The concept of self-regulation must be "privileged in the treatment of defamation in place of legal arrangements condemning journalists to prison," emphasized the participants work.
The IFJ also says that "if the right to information is recognized in Algeria since 1976 by the charters and laws governing the press, access to information is not always guaranteed.
The seminar also recommended establishing a national identity card of the journalist, the opening of the Algerian audiovisual and implementation of a national collective agreement.
Discussions also focused on the need to develop means of training journalists.
- Ennaharonline/ M. O.
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