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Monitoring the media - The main activity of the project will be monitor national newspapers. The monitoring methodology which will be designed by the advisory board and the project team, deciding which newspapers will be monitored under which criteria. The screening will focus on the hate speech based on ethnic or religious origin. The monitors will fill out the standardized forms for each article, which then be analyzed and published on the website. The content and the dimensions of violation will be explained in detail. The findings will be published on the web site along with the analysis for each piece monthly.
Monitoring reports - Every 4 months, letters and short reports will be prepared to be sent to the editors of the newspapers, as well as the Press Council, the Turkeys Journalist Associations and the relevant non-governmental organizations. The content of the report will comprise of the articles that has been marked as using hate speech and the analysis. With these mailings, the editors will be aware that they are being monitored and exposed to public via web site. The reports will be also shared with the communication faculties of the universities in all over Turkey.
A press release which will provide the summary of findings will be sent to all media outlets and also will be published in the web site of the project.
Workshops - In August 2009, selected jurists and journalists, including the columnists and the editors will be invited to attend to the hate speech workshop. During the workshop, the preliminary findings of the media-watch work will be presented to the participants and issues like how to improve the monitoring work, how to change the discourse of the media and how to combat racism and discrimination in the media will be discussed.
The second workshop will take place in October 2009 with the same agenda and will build upon the findings and recommendations of the first workshop. The media workers from local newspapers, including the representatives of the newspapers and civil society organizations will be invited to this workshop.
In the same month, another workshop will take place in Istanbul with the participation of the young media professionals from the mainstream media. Newly graduated journalists will be the target group for the workshop. During this workshop, advisory board members, media professionals and jurists will make short presentations on hate speech and open a discussion on the ways to prevent the hate speech on the daily media. The participants will be asked to monitor and criticize the media language of that weeks newspapers. The participants will be asked to rewrite the articles that are found to contain hate speech.
The workshops aim to alert the young journalists and the local media workers on the use of the language in writing the news pieces and encourage them to avoid using hate speech.
Seminar in the Eskisehir Anadolu University, Communication Sciences Faculty A seminar in the Communication Sciences Faculty of the Eskisehir Anadolu University will be held on the 12th month of the action. The students of the faculty and the representatives of the local NGOs will be invited to the seminar. The presentations will be on topics like, What is hate speech, racism and discrimination?, The current situation of the mass media in Turkey - how are the news presented to the readers/viewers?, The role and the responsibility of the media in combating racism and discrimination.
International conference An international conference will be organized in Istanbul, in April 2010. International jurists, journalists and representatives from various media watch groups from different parts of the world will be invited. The topics that will be presented in the conference will be as follows: 1) Hate speech (international legislations, best practices, challenge of restricting the freedom of expression) 2) The role of the media in shaping consent (how the media acts as an actor in forming stereotypes, rights based journalism) 3) Best practices in media watch and its role (with experience sharing from other NGOS nationally and internationally) 4) General discussion (next steps in Turkish media watch)
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