Ombudsmen and Civil Society Talks Peace Journalism
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Project “Peace Journalism” with the contribution of Consulate General of the Netherlands in İstanbul and Dean of Communication Faculty of Kadir Has University, Professor Doctor Sevda Alankuş’ supervisorship continues.
Ombudsmen and civil society organizations discuss peace journalism in Kadir Has University.
The participants are Assoc. Prof. Dr. İncilay Cangöz, Hürriyet Daily Newspaper readers’ representative Faruk Bildirici, Cumhuriyet Daily Newspaper readers’ representative Güray Tekin Öz, Journalist Mete Çubukçu, Yıldız Tar from Kaos GL, Mert Onur from Firedrich Ebert Stiftung, Burcu Arıkan from “Barış İçin Kadın Girişimi”, Hakan Tahmaz from “Barış Meclisi”, Güven Gürkan Öztan and Feray Salman fromHistory Foundation, Hrant Dink Foundation representative, Peace Journalism Project Coordinator Begüm Zorlu, President ofCommunication Foundation Nadire Mater and bianet Administrative Affairs Director Baran Gündoğdu.
Prof. Alankuş: Peace journalism should have editorial policy
Prof. Alankuş talked to bianet over the project before the meeting:
“Turkey mostly needs peace journalism in the process of peace. If the government has a peace policy, the media has a peace policy. Otherwise, there will be double standard. We aim peace journalism to be editorial policy by many media organs.
Turkey’s media bosses support peace journalism with a conjuncture approach. They profit from it. This is not a “first time” compromise. We need peace. Everybody agrees with that but don’t know how. Editorial policy can only be achieved by media bosses and chief editors. Doğan Media Group has peace journalism as one of its media principles. You can’t even imagine that 10 years before.
Second meeting with academicians
This is the 3rd meeting of Project Peace Journalism with civil society representatives and ombudsmen.
After the meeting with journalists, the second meeting held with academicians. The participants are Professor Alankuş, Eylem Yanardağoğlu, Suncem Koçer and İrem İnceoğlu from Kadir Has University, Tunç Karaçay, Yasin Duman and Emre Hatipoğlu from Sabancı University, Nezih Orhon and Cangöz from Anadolu University, Ülkü Doğanay from Ankara University, Nur Bekata Mardin from Boğaziçi University, Nurçay Kurçoğlu from Çukurova University, Göktürk Yıldız from Kocaeli University, Barış Çoban from Doğuş University, Özden Cankaya from İstanbul Aydın University and Mater, Zorlu and Evren Gönül from bianet.
Project Peace Journalism
In the first part of the project, news examples taken from nine newspaper belonging to the date from 1 September to 15 October 2014 and the examples have been scanned with peace journalism criteria. Assistant Professor Doctor from İzmir Ekonomi University has made a report over the results. Next month four meeting will be held according to this report and there will be organizations of journalists, newspaper editors, readers’ representatives, rights organizations and communication academicians.
Online/written peace journalism guides and online libraries will be made with the cooperation of these organizations and then Peace Journalism Conference will be held. (EA/BD)
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