Institute for Global Ethics UK Trust
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Responsibility & the Media

 

Between January 2001 and March 2003, IGE UK convened four events, including two further consultations at St George’s House, Windsor Castle supported by the Comino and Gordon Cook Foundations, in response to the growing sense of public distrust in the media.

 

Working with partner organisations from the media including the Media Society, International Communications Forum, Institute of Communication Ethics and PressWise Trust, these events brought together a wide range of participants to look at the feasibility of setting up a new centre for media affairs.

  • The Conscience of the Journalist: Individual Responsibility in the Media (Reform Club, Pall Mall, London, January 2001)
  • Responsibility in the Media (St. George's House, June 2002)
  • The case for a Centre for Media Ethics in a Democratic Society (St. George's House, December 2002).  A report (pdf) of the consultation is available here.
  • Journalism and Media Ethics in a Democracy (Guardian and Observer Visitor Centre, March 2003)

An outcome of the series of consultations on Responsibility and the Media in 2002-03 was the relaunch of the media ethics charity PressWise Trust as MediaWise in 2004

 

During this period, we also convened a Windsor consultation on Responsibility Parenting: Society’s Role? in collaboration with the Parenting Forum and the National Family and Parenting Institute, which considered three main questions:

  • What universal offers of support for families do we know are currently being developed, or could/should be developed?
  • What is our collective responsibility, and how might we bring this idea more into the public discourse by shifting language from ‘feckless parents’ to the consideration of the responsibility of society, as a whole, for the nurture and care of young people?
  • Media: how do we play the story? How do we work with the media? How do we use the media, or work with advocates within the media, to have the public discourse represent more what we need to do?

A report (pdf) of the consultation: Responsible Parenting: Society’s Role? is available here. 
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