Tool for comparing Codes of Journalism Ethics across borders

This just caught my attention. EthicNet is a Databank for European Codes of Journalism Ethics maintained by the Journalism Research and Development Centre at the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Tampere, Finland.

The codes differs a lot from country to country. Russia has 10 rules, Moldova 22 and Austria only 5. The Italian charter is many pages long and includes chapters about children and weak people and advertising while the french is just a simple bullet list adopted and nearly unchanged since 1918.

Take a look at the EthicNet here. All codes have been translated to english.

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