Imprint: Quality journalism must be a priority for media companies
Media companies in Switzerland should give top priority to their core mission: quality journalism. This is what the delegates’ assembly of the journalists’ organization Impressum called for in a resolution adopted on Friday.
The economic crisis and structural changes in the media have had consequences that jeopardize the independence, quality and social function of the media, Impressum notes with concern in a communiqué, according to SDA. Editorial budgets and budgets for assignments to freelancers are being slashed. This prevents high-quality and independent reporting. Cooperation between the media is restricting the diversity of opinion. There is a tendency to mix advertising and information for economic reasons. The delegates of Switzerland's largest journalists' organization are therefore calling on the editors-in-chief to assume their journalistic responsibility and enforce it against the media companies.
Cooperation between media - even within the same media groups -, convergence and the trend towards newsrooms should not lead to different media publishing the same opinions and perspectives.
Budgets for assignments to independent freelance journalists should not be cut any further. And multiple exploitation without compensation must be stopped. The "Declaration of Duties and Rights of Journalists" must be adhered to.
Cooperation between media - even within the same media groups -, convergence and the trend towards newsrooms should not lead to different media publishing the same opinions and perspectives.
Budgets for assignments to independent freelance journalists should not be cut any further. And multiple exploitation without compensation must be stopped. The "Declaration of Duties and Rights of Journalists" must be adhered to.
