JAMAICAN JOURNALISTS LAUNCH CAMPAIGN TO STAMP OUT CORRUPTION

At a seminar in Kingston today, organised jointly with National Integrity Action as part of National Journalism Week, journalists in Jamaica have pledged to join forces with civil society to fight corruption – inside and outside the media.

Former NUJ UK General Secretary Jeremy Dear called on media owners to address the "fear, low pay, precarious employment and hire and fire culture in too many newsrooms that left journalism too open to corruption, too reliant on payola or other forms of unethical practice and its independence challenged and compromised." see  http://admin.ifj.org/assets/docs/225/247/e4648e1-6c4dff7.pdf

Jamaican Minister for Information Sandrea Falconer gave her backing to the Press Association of Jamaica's campaign to establish a Press Council in the face of opposition from media owners.

see http://admin.ifj.org/assets/docs/118/242/f6ead76-64b86f2.pdf.