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Press Ombuds: Championing media ethics
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Carmel Rickard is the new Press Ombud.
Rickard replaces Pippa Green who resigned in December 2020.
The Ombud would have deputies for the first time due to the Press Council s restructuring.
The Press Council of South Africa (PCSA) announced the appointment of Carmel Rickard as the new Press Ombud on Monday.
The council also announced Rickards deputies are Herman Scholtz and Tyrone August.
The veteran journalists only recently took up their positions, the organisation s executive director, Latiefa Mobara, said.
Rickard replaces Pippa Green who took up the seat in 2019.
Mobara said Green had resigned in December to take up a job at the University of Cape Town.
The country is infamous for high rates of crime and violence. But a widely reported crime ranking of its cities was based on the perceptions of 2,704 people.
In February 2021, South African websites reported that six of the country’s cities were in the top 20 of the “most dangerous” in the world, according to the Numbeo.com Crime Index by City 2021.
Numbeo.com’s crime index only uses the perceptions of visitors to its website. It is not based on any real data.
Crime statistics contradicts the index and experts say better data on perceptions of crime exist.
Read more about this report here.
Image: Alberton Record
NATIONAL NEWS - The South African National Editors’ Forum (Sanef) tomorrow (Friday) hosts the second of four webinars aimed at promoting media ethics.
These webinars – which will culminate in an online ethics conference on 15 May – give participants the opportunity to help shape the journalism ethics recommendations that will be discussed at the conference.
The first webinar was on April 21 but journalists, editors, media trainers and other stakeholders can still register for the other three.
Webinar 2: Using ethics as a tool for change
When: April 23, 3pm-5pm. Themes: ‘Strengthening ethics codes and principles’ and ‘Strengthening the regulators’. Moderated by: Sanef Media freedom chairperson Mary Papayya, with expert input from Wits University professor Franz Kruger, Aidan White of the Ethical Journalism Network and Press Council of South Africa executive director Latiefa Mobara.
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