MISSION
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What does CIME do?
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* Our CIME Forum in Benin (2009) and Mexico (2010) provided journalists with a framework for panels & discussion on ethics. Participants expressed significant positive feedback, and media houses requested in both locations that CIME return to provide training to their staff.
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* Our monthly CIME Newsletter gives a voice to media professionals worldwide on the topic of ethics. The e-publication includes articles and interviews about media ethics from specialists in the field in addition to news about our activities. Sign up to the newsletter on our website homepage.
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* Through CIME presentations at various international locations, we advocate the importance of training & discussion on ethics among media professionals.
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* We provide journalism ethics training online and on-site, with a focus in J-Ethinomics.
What does CIME believe?
CIME encourages each journalist to take on a proactive role in defining ethical practices through the choices and decisions made at work on a daily basis. We urge our journalists to work together to make their own judgments and identify their own strategies. Our driving emphasis is that journalists together have the power to formulate and enforce a tacit code of ethics as a status quo of their profession.
CIME has already hosted its Forum two years in a row, to provide panel discussion sessions for a group of selected journalists on the topic of ethics. This provides a framework for media professionals to share strategies on local ethical dilemmas that come up in their work. We host the CIME Forum in low-income countries where journalists cannot normally afford ethics training, with the goal of improving the overall journalism ethics standards in each given country.
How did CIME begin? In July 2007, thirty-two young journalists and professionals from five continents gathered in Prague for a week-long European Journalism Institute hosted by The Fund for American Studies (TFAS). The seminar was an experiment in tackling key ethical questions that are often left unaddressed in the newsroom. By the end of the week the group shared a vision and the desire to take it a step further. Led by co-founders Kayeromi Gomez and Melisande Middleton, CIME emerged as a formal international framework to help journalists take on a proactive role in shaping their societies.
