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Professional Journalistic Standards and Code of Ethics

UNESCO promotes establishing of functioning media self-regulatory mechanisms in SEE and consolidating European standards on media.
Organizations
Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA)
The Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA), an initiative of the National Endowment for Democracy, aims to strengthen the support, raise the visibility, and improve the effectiveness of media assistance programs throughout the world.
European Court for Human Rights (ECHR)
European Court for Human Rights is an international institution with the Council of Europe
European Journalism Centre (EJC)
The European Journalism Centre (EJC) is an independent, international, non-profit institute dedicated to the highest standards in journalism, primarily through the further training of journalists and media professionals.
FAIR - Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting
A New York based national media watch group, offering well-documented criticism of media bias and censorship since 1986.
Institute for War and Peace Reporting
The Institute for War and Peace Reporting aims to build peace and democracy through free and fair media.
Institute of Communications Ethics
The Institute, based in the UK, provides a platform for the worldwide study and practice for the learning/teaching of communication ethics, a discipline that supports communication practitioners by offering tools and analyses for the understanding of ethical issues.
International Center for Journalists (ICFJ)
The International Center for Journalists is an independent and nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the quality of journalism worldwide.
International Press Institute (IPI)
The mission of the International Press Institute is to improve press freedom, the free flow of news and the practise of journalism. Each year IPI examines the state of the media in over 180 countries and publishes the World Press Freedom Review, an authoritative report on media violations around the world.
International Research & Exchanges Board (IREX)
IREX works with local partners around the world to advance the professionalism and long-term economic sustainability of newspapers, radio, television, and Internet media.
Kosovo Press Council
The Press Council of Kosovo, established in 2006, is a self-regulatory body for and by the print media sector in Kosovo. It’s mission is based on the convictions of the Code of Conduct.
Media Diversity Institute (MDI)
The Media Diversity Institute (MDI) is a charity, non-partisan organization that mobilises the power of media to lessen inter-group conflict, advance human rights – especially minority rights – and support deeper public understanding of all types of social diversity.
Mediawise (formerly PressWise)
The MediaWise Trust is a registered UK charity (1999) and a limited company, providing advice, information, research and training on media ethics.
National Council for Journalistic Ethics, Bulgaria
National Council for Journalistic Ethics is Bulgarian self-regulatory body for print and electronic media, which is established in 2005 and is registered as a not-for-profit public foundation.
Pew Center for Civic Journalism
The Pew Center, created by the US Pew Charitable Trusts, is an incubator for civic journalism experiments that enable news organizations to create and refine better ways of reporting the news to re-engage people in public life.
Poynter Institute
The Poynter Institute is a school dedicated to teaching and inspiring journalists and media leaders. It organizes training seminars and maintains an online resource centre with publications, reports and links to help in the professional development of journalists and news media leaders.
Press Council in Bosnia-Herzegovina
First self-regulatory body for the print media in the Western Balkan and SEE, established in 2000, supported by the BH print media industry and journalists’community.
Reporters without Borders
Reporters Without Borders defends journalists and media assistants imprisoned or persecuted for doing their job and exposes the mistreatment and torture of them in many countries. It also fights against censorship and laws that undermine press freedom.
The Global Forum for Media Development (GFMD)
The GFMD constitutes a network of some 500 non-governmental media assistance organizations operating in about 100 countries across Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Europe, Eurasia and the Americas, which support the development of independent media at the community, national and regional level.
Thomson Reuters Foundation
Reuters Foundation provides training for journalists around the globe, sharing the skills and values that have made its parent Reuters world-renowned as a highly reliable and trusted source of news and information.
Turkish Press Council
The Press Council is a self regulation platform (a non-governmental organization) created in 1988 by active journalists with the aim of realizing a "freer and a more respectable" press (media) and who came together to establish "freedom of communication (press)" in its broadest sense and to prove that this freedom can be used within the context of responsibility or self-regulation principles.

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