Looking back at ONO 2024 in Cape Town

2024 ONO Conference was held in Cape Town, South Africa, from May 16 to 18, and hosted by Media24. As an ONO member, you may read or see, below, some of the presentations that were proposed to attendees.

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• Monitoring elections Media coverage and disinformation  
  • Read William Bird’s presentation
  • Read Herman Wasserman’s presentation
    
• Do journalists really know their own codes?
  • Read Marenet Jordaan’s presentation
  • Read Kerstin Dolde’s presentation
    
• The growth in physical and online assaults on journalists
  • Read Lars Bennike’s presentation
  • See Miriam Lewin’s address (password: ono2024conf)
  • Read Sandra E. Martin’s presentation
    
• Dis/misinformation, manipulated photos: AI challenges for ombuds and standards editors 
  • Read Pierre Champoux’s presentation : PDF version, PowerPoint version (with comments)
  • See Pierre’s AI produced video
  • See John Daniszewski’s interview with Aaron Jackson (password : ono2024conf)
    
• Media self-regulation, state interference, and protection of journalists’ independence
  • See Judge Bernard Ngoepe’s keynote address (password: ono2024conf)
  • Read his keynote address
    
• Media ethics in the trenches: journalists should do no harm
  • Read Ignaz Staub’s presentation
  • Read Bjarne Schilling’s presentation
  • Read Lizette Rabe’s presentation
    
• Science and disinformation: handling nonsense on stilts by the media
  • Read George Claassen’s presentation
    
• Balancing the news during conflict: Israel/Hamas, and Ukraine/Russia
  • See David Regev’s presentation (password: ono2024conf)
  • COMING UP Read David Jordan’s presentation
  • See the documentary My war : Reporting Gaza (BBC World Service)
    
• Weaponising language: the fight over what words really mean 
  • COMING UP Read Lizette Rabe’s presentation
  • Links to the documents and websites Jane Patterson referred to in her presentation
    • Independent External Review of RNZ Editorial Processes
    • RNZ Editorial Policy
    • RNZ Social Media Policy
    • https://netsafe.org.nz/ 
    • https://www.bsa.govt.nz/decisions/all-decisions/new-zealand-jewish-council-and-radio-new-zealand-ltd-2024-005-7-may-2024
    • https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/morningreport/audio/2018911918/te-pati-maori-calls-for-government-to-insist-on-israel-gaza-ceasefire
    • https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/516240/te-pati-maori-comments-that-kind-of-language-isn-t-helpful
    • https://www.bsa.govt.nz/broadcasting-standards/broadcasting-code-book-2022/the-codebook
    • https://www.bsa.govt.nz/broadcasting-standards/election-code
    • https://www.mediacouncil.org.nz/principles/

Please come back later to view more of this year’s ONO Cape Town presentations.

In The Media

• African media councils form a pan-African network for self-regulatory bodies (press release)
• Rol van media noodsaaklik in tye van meer konflik wêreldwyd – Ngoepe (NETWERK 24)
• Disinformasie op sosiale mediK 24) wek kommer tydens verkiesings (NETWERK 24)

A Thousand Words

Click here to view ONO 2024 Conference photo album. Most photos are courtesy of ONO’s « official photographer » Lars Bennike.