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By Francis Pisani


In this digital age where everyone can inform ethics could become the ultimate value added by professional journalists.

This is the discussion that is taking place to mark the 15th anniversary of the Foundation for New Latin American Journalism, created by Colombian Gabriel García Márquez in Cartagena de Indias.

immutable necessarily adapt to new circumstances of the digital age. The big challenge is to understand to what extent and how to adapt.

shafts that have governed the foundation have been the narrative quality, commitment to research and ethical rigor. This last imperative is customized from the start by the maestro Javier Darío Restrepo and ethical practice, which responds to the doubts and questions of journalists from Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula.

"comparator 69 codes of journalistic ethics," he said in an interview. "All around three points: the commitment to truth, social responsibility and independence as an essential mechanism to reach the truth, "said

Not that anyone stop the truth, also specifies that" the truth is never absolute. This is an internal dynamic and intellectual is to look for and offer what is, by subjecting it to criticism and review, "he said.
social responsibility, according to Restrepo, is based on the fact that "the sole master of the journalist is the reader" to whom the information is intended to make it useful. Quoting the code memory of the Latin American Press Association, said those reports have to be aware of the power they hold and never forget that the damage can be inflicted never fully repaired.

Independence, of course, is "the condition of freedom." Involves "breaking the dependency in relation to all kinds of power: political, economic, religious, military hierarchy within the organization, but also against the sources of fear and arrogance of the journalist," according to Restrepo.

For Jaime Abello, director of the FNPI, "Today anyone can report and use a variety of means. What distinguishes us is the ethics. " To this, Joaquín Estefanía, director of the School of Journalism Universidad Autonoma de Madrid / El Pais, said: "And the procedures," citing the verification and always rely on at least two different sources on the act to which it alludes.

The challenge lies in applying these principles, these procedures, in the digital age. There are some who say that what confronts today has emerged from one way or another yesterday. Although in some cases be true, which always changes the scale at which problems arise.

Many elements, while not totally new, fit in this category. We mention the ability to disguise or conceal the identity and make changes to documents (digital) and the ease of plagiarism due to "copy and paste" so elementary in the network. The spreading of rumors can take proportions rarely experienced before, and the ability to do harm. Journalists are very sensitive, particularly to the marked difficulty in identifying the sources.

But beyond these trivial issues, to highlight five challenges seem particularly relevant.

monopoly loss of proprietary information of journalists and audience participation of the former when there is or there are no journalists. As witnesses and analysts.

real-time coverage. Pressure increases the speed, which has its origins in economic competition between media.

Too much information or, rather, the information asymmetry, and the fact that today is almost as difficult to find public information of value, as revealing that you want to keep hidden.

New forms of manipulation and control by the powerful, whose scope is also the use of ICT.

The opportunity involves transparency, which has come to be called a possible "new objectivity" (David Weinberger).

There are two ways (at least) to address the issue of journalistic ethics in a digital age. The first characteristic of an Foundation and journalists, is to ask how to adapt to this was to preserve the immutable values \u200b\u200bof the trade. The second-

nothing inconsistent with the first-lies in opening the floor for ethical reflection and procedures journalists are subject of meditation and a tool for all those who report.

It follows the central question: How to spread or expand the impact of procedures and of journalistic ethics to improve the flow of information?

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