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Internal and external responsibility

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Strengthen public confidence in the media through accountability and control mechanisms.

Course Contents

Outcomes
Course Experts
Organisations
Pass rate
At the end of the course, participants will be able to:

  • Identify best practices for strengthening media accountability 
  • Develop or update the complaints handling process 
  • Develop or update the media's internal accountability mechanism 
  • Exploring the benefits and limits of external media control 
  • Transparent communication on the external control process to which the media company is committed

Jacqueline Dalton –
Fondation Hirondelle 

Jackie Dalton is head of editorial content at Fondation Hirondelle, an organisation which aims to ensure that populations in crisis-affected countries have access to reliable information and spaces for dialogue. Jackie has 20 years’ experience in media and in humanitarian programming.

Emmanuel De Solère Stinzy -
Journalism trainer

Emmanuel is the founder and director of Journalists and Mediators, a French non-profit which works to strength democracy, the rule of law and respect for human rights through quality journalism and mediation. Emmanuel also works as a journalist for various partners in Africa and France including CFI, Syfia International and Fondation Hirondelle.

Fondation Hirondelle is a Swiss non-profit organization working to ensure that people facing crises have access to reliable, local, independent information. It has been supporting local media and journalists in fragile contexts for over 30 years (since 1995).

To successfully complete the course and get your certificate, you will need to achieve a 60% pass rate for the graded assessment.