LEGALITY AND RESPONSIBILITY PARTY – Saturday 18 May 2024 at 9.30 in the City Council room (Piazza Municipio 2 – FE)
The Order of Journalists and the Journalists Foundation of Emilia-Romagna in collaboration with the Municipality of Ferrara – Press Office and Assostampa Ferrara has organized for Saturday 18 May 2024 from 9.30 to 13.30 in the City Council room (Piazza del Municipio 2, FE) a training seminar aimed at journalists and open to all citizens on the topic “Whistleblowing, reporting illegality: laws, rules, news cases. The protection of sources, an ethical duty”. The initiative is included in the 2024 program of the Legality and Responsibility Festival.
Participation is free and open (registrations for journalists on the ODG training platform).
On 9 March 2023, the Council of Ministers definitively approved the legislative decree implementing European Directive 2019/1937 regarding the protection of people who report offenses of which they become aware due to their employment relationship. Through the analysis of the new regulations on whistleblowing, during the seminar we will delve into news cases at a national and international level for an initial evaluation of their correct application. The meeting, which provides ethical training credits for registered journalists, also proposes an in-depth analysis and ethical update on the protection of sources in the journalistic field, as a fundamental tool for carrying out investigative journalism activities for the benefit of citizens.
This is the detailed program for the morning of May 18, 2024 – From 9.30 to 13.30 reports:
– “Whistleblowers”: spies or model citizens? The state of application of a law that must protect those who report or report. Legal aspects and critical issues
Andrea Scarpellini (lawyer of the Milan Bar, advisor to the Advisora Association)
– Whistleblowing, reporting crimes, a right and duty for citizens, for journalists: the Italian news cases Carlo Bertini (former state official) and Nicola Borzi (journalist)
Sara Tagliente (journalist, director of Telegenova)
– Laws and rights violated: the whistleblowers Manning and Snowden and the WikiLeaks-Assange affair
Sara Chessa (journalist based in London – National Union of Journalists)
– The protection of sources: ethical aspects and critical issues in the use of fundamental tools for investigative journalism
Giovanni Rossi (journalist, former president of ODG Emilia Romagna, deputy general secretary and president of FNSI; currently national councilor of FNSI)
The event will be introduced and moderated by Alessandro Zangara (journalist, head of the Press Office of the Municipality of Ferrara).
For info and communications: [email protected] – tel. 0532-419244
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