The PROOF STRATEGIES wrote: "In today’s rapidly changing news cycle, how do you develop high quality, lasting relationships with journalists? It can be helpful to think of creating meaningful relationships with journalists just as you would go about making a friend or forming a romantic relationship."

The Deadline Club, which is the organization of the Society of Professional Journalists', informed of the eCCO Magazin Editors, that the 2020 Awards Contest is Now Open. The Deadline Club's journalism competition, one of the most prestigious in New York, draws hundreds of entries each year. The 2020 contest covers work that was published or broadcast in 2019 by news organizations in the New York metropolitan area. 

Bayer announces its new partnership with the Association of Foreign Correspondents in the United States that will provide present and future generations of journalists’ the resources needed to help them pursue other areas of interest within their industry. 

Bayer recognized two exceptional foreign journalists with scholarship awards at the recent Association of Foreign Correspondents in the USA (AFC-USA) Annual Awards Ceremony, held at the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute of Hunter College in New York City.

News organizations promoting news literacy and the importance of quality journalism can now apply for the CJF-Facebook Journalism Project News Literacy Award. The deadline is Feb. 21, 2020.

The Association of Foreign Correspondents in the United States is aware of its responsibility in the ethical shaping of journalism and hereby states that:

• an ethical journalist acts with integrity

• ethical journalism strives to ensure the free exchange of information that is both accurate and fair

• ethical journalists openly publish their intellectual product for information or opinion-forming purposes, through a media genre and/or channel, or through a contribution to a media genre and/or channel as a result of their profession

• it is a responsibility of journalists and society to protect freedom of speech

It follows from the above, that:

• deceiving media consumers, (i.e. print or online readers, tv/film/video viewers or radio/podcast listeners) is considered an unethical activity

• the journalist shall not be obliged to perform marketing communications such as advertising, sponsorship or patronage organizing nor shall the journalist be obligated to supply financial or material support services

• the relationship between media consumers and marketers rests on the understanding that news and marketing communications, including advertising, are strictly separated

• journalists their neutrality and objectivity by avoiding any special interest and bias perspective

All journalists wishing to become members of the AFC United States will declare that they agree with the above statement when they join the organization.

AFC United States

Source: https://foreignpresscorrespondents.org/membership

The Association of Foreign Correspondents in collaboration with the National Press Foundation invites foreign correspondents to our online workshop on Coronavirus and Tariffs which will take place on Monday, March 16th. Registration required.

eCCO Magazine wants to help journalist colleagues avoid fake news. That's why the editorial board of eCCO Magazine would like to recommend some good sources for their Covid-19 outbreak reporting.

The eCCO Magazine started a new service for the Communication Experts. This is the TOOLBOX of the Communication Experts.

The editor of the eCCO Magazine would like to draw attention to the information of Global Editors Network: Facebook and the media — frenemies?  

The editor of CCO Magazine would like to draw readers' attention to the article published by the Facebook Journalism Project. Facebook Fundraising Tips From Bret Baier of Fox News.

The editor of the e CCO Magazin would like to draw the attention of the readers, the Medium wrote: "Facts Alone Won’t Destroy Fake News" 

Reporting Democracy is run by the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network, a non-profit network promoting free speech, human rights and democratic values in Southern and Eastern Europe and beyond. Reporting Democracy has a program: Fellowship for Journalistic Excellence - Visegrad Group countries: CALL FOR APPLICATIONS OPEN - DEADLINE MARCH 10

If you read an international news story today, it likely was reported with the aid of a fixer -- a local, on-the-ground guide who worked with American journalists abroad. On Thursday, Jan. 30 from 3 - 4:15 p.m., learn from the vast network of locally-based media employees who serve as guides to foreign journalists operating in unfamiliar terrain.

The Facebook Journalism Project presented: "More than 650 industry leaders, journalists, and academics convened from Thursday, June 13 to Saturday, June 15 for the ninth annual GEN Summit at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center in Athens, Greece"

eCCO Magazine recommend the Ninth Annual GEN Summit - the leading editorial conference organised by the Global Editors Network in Athens, GR, from 13 - 15 June

The Global Editors Network is pleased to announce the launch of the GEN Summit 2017 website. The 7th annual GEN Summit will take place 21-23 June 2017, in Vienna, Austria. 

The editor of eCCO Magazine would like to draw readers' attention to the fact that Global Connections Television (GCTV) interviewed Nancy Prager-Kamel, the Chairwoman of the Association of Foreign Correspondents in the USA.

Important links for Journalists

ORGANIZATIONS

Society of Professional Journalists(USA)

Foreign Press Association (USA)

US Department of State - Foreign Press Center

American Copy Editors Society

American Foreign Service Association 

Asian American Journalists Association

National Association of Black Journalists

National Association of Hispanic Journalists

National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association

Native American Journalists Association

SOURCES

UNITED NATIONS

• UN News

EUROPEAN UNION

• European Commission Press Release Database

 USA

• White House
• Press Releases

INFORMATION FOR THE PRESS 

• The NewsMarket - Politics and International Affairs

DISTRIBUTION OF PRESS RELEASES

• eReleases
• Newswire
• Best Press Release Distribution Services 2019

ETHICS OF THE MEDIA AND PRESS

Codes of Ethics From Around the World (list)

SPJ’s Code of Ethics  

• Quill: Stories About Journalism Ethics
• Related News and Articles

Journalism ethics and standards

International Council for Press and Broadcasting  

American Society of Newspaper Editors (ASNE)  Professional Codes of Ethics

JOURNALISM - BLOGS, REVIEWS AND MAGAZINES

100 Key Ethics & Media Law Resources

American Journalism Review

BloggingNetwork.com

Columbia Journalism Review

eCCO Magazine eCCO is an electronic Corporate COmmunication  Magazine  for the communictaion experts -  ECCO COLLECTION - OTHERS WROTE, WE QUOTE

Quill A Magazine by the Society of Professional Journalists

The Association of Foreign Correspondents in the United States announced a scholarship program for foreign journalists studying in the United States. The results of this program were announced on 4 November.

eCCO Magazine asked about the Scholarship program Nancy Prager-Kamel, the Chair of the Board of the Association of Foreign Correspondents USA / Scholarship and Education.