Presentation for the panel "Can journalism be trusted in the digital age" with the protests in Turkey as a case study.

1. Esra Doğramacı
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Turkey: 2013 protests

2. What is happening in Turkey?

4. versus

5. Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-22859959

6. Turkish Media Failure?
Source: https://twitter.com/aycanarslan/status/342021804140924928/photo/1

7. Turkish Media Failure?

8. Foreign Media Failure?

9. Foreign media continued

10. …social media enters

11. Social is the new-media

12. So, can journalism be trusted in the
digital age?

13. Sure *
*with caveats

14. Lessons
In the absence of coverage, people will create
their own media.
• Reporting = facts
• Journalism = context
• Analysis = meaning, predictions, implications
Otherwise its ‘news requiring least effort’

15. & media discretion
Via @FatmaKilicaslan Via @BusraAkin
1. Beware of emotive language
2. Quantify (numbers) v. descriptions
3. Look at both sides

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