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We, undersigned,
petition UNESCO towards
- recognising world journalism in crisis.
- considering impacts from loss of journalism capacity.
- encouraging leadership efforts against global journalism crisis.
Journalism has been in retreat for decades. Thousands of media companies from the 1970s are now owned or dominated by half a dozen global media giants. In the last two years alone, more than 30,000 newsroom workers have been sacked.
Of 60,000 US journalists counted in 2001, around 10,000 have lost their jobs. And that's just in the United States.
Worldwide, tens of thousands more journalists are no longer providing independent or investigative information. Over the same decade, spending on "communications" workers increased exponentially.
JICC, the Journalism in Crisis Coalition urges UNESCO to encourage debate on world journalism in crisis, as a ongoing threat to human rights, directly, and, indirectly, as a contributing factor to global economic crisis.
In launching this year long petition to raise awarenes of world journalism in crisis, JICC petitioners plea for urgent response by UNESCO, to help avert informational failure threatening planetary futures.
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April 30, 2010
The emails to bureaucrats keep hitting dead ends but I am not walking away from this fight. It is exhausting to face this bureaucracy yet the reality of journalism in crisis remains too heavy to ignore.
April 30, 2010
Seeing this momentum grow has been a grueling but necessary reminder that we aren't alone in this fight. The exhaustion is real, yet watching so many people acknowledge the decay of our newsrooms keeps me moving forward.
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Facts are getting harder to find these days and real reporters are being pushed out. Stop letting corporate garbage take over the news.
Press freedom is basically dead. We need to wake up before it is too late.
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. . .
We, undersigned,
petition UNESCO towards
- recognising world journalism in crisis.
- considering impacts from loss of journalism capacity.
- encouraging leadership efforts against global journalism crisis.
Journalism has been in retreat for decades. Thousands of media companies from the 1970s are now owned or dominated by half a dozen global media giants. In the last two years alone, more than 30,000 newsroom workers have been sacked.
Of 60,000 US journalists counted in 2001, around 10,000 have lost their jobs. And that's just in the United States.
Worldwide, tens of thousands more journalists are no longer providing independent or investigative information. Over the same decade, spending on "communications" workers increased exponentially.
JICC, the Journalism in Crisis Coalition urges UNESCO to encourage debate on world journalism in crisis, as a ongoing threat to human rights, directly, and, indirectly, as a contributing factor to global economic crisis.
In launching this year long petition to raise awarenes of world journalism in crisis, JICC petitioners plea for urgent response by UNESCO, to help avert informational failure threatening planetary futures.
Sign below.
MORE:
3 seconds: join JICC on Facebook
30 seconds: scan journalism crisis headlines
. . .
Updates
April 30, 2010
The emails to bureaucrats keep hitting dead ends but I am not walking away from this fight. It is exhausting to face this bureaucracy yet the reality of journalism in crisis remains too heavy to ignore.
April 30, 2010
Seeing this momentum grow has been a grueling but necessary reminder that we aren't alone in this fight. The exhaustion is real, yet watching so many people acknowledge the decay of our newsrooms keeps me moving forward.
3 Comments
TRUTH MATTERS. Tired of all the spin. Just give us the actual story instead of agendas
Facts are getting harder to find these days and real reporters are being pushed out. Stop letting corporate garbage take over the news.
Press freedom is basically dead. We need to wake up before it is too late.
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TRUTH MATTERS. Tired of all the spin. Just give us the actual story instead of agendas