Military Officer Sentenced for Assaulting Journalist in Indonesia

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has welcomed the successful prosecution of a former Indonesian military intelligence officer who severely assaulted a journalist in Banda Aceh, in the country’s west but has called the relatively lenient 10-month prison sentence into question.

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Murrow: Journalism At Its Best

On a cool September evening somewhere in America in 1940, a family gathers around a vacuum- tube radio. As someone adjusts the tuning knob, a distinct and serious voice cuts through the airwaves: “This ... is London.”

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Journalism Ethics: The Global Debate

What would you do in these situations? These are real dilemmas faced by real journalists. They are just three of 21 case studies profiled in this manual; none of the case studies is hypothetical. By sharing their stories, working journalists helped the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) develop this manual, which aims to provide a practical framework for making ethical decisions on deadline.

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Investigative Journalism

Congolese Eric Mwamba is a freelance journalist. He and colleagues, some of whom worked on Le Rebond newspaper, were distressed by what they saw as the hypocrisy of their government, which came to power denouncing the corruption of the previous regime, but rapidly became embroiled in scandals of its own. Here, he tells the story of his paper’s efforts to reveal what was going on.

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