Agenda

The treatment of child violence and abuse cases by the media, in Greece and internationally, largely fails to adequately protect children’s rights and uphold key safeguarding principles. The quality and level of exposure of details of an abuse (from police and hospital reports, to the child's personal details, including address and school), interviews conducted with children and their family without a truly informed consent, the dramatic music and image backgrounds used, are examples of how the media fail to protect children and directly result in amplifying the effects of the abuse on children. Often, the results are worse when the alleged perpetrators themselves are children – e.g. in cases of violence and bullying in school.

SOS Children’s Villages Greece partner with Irene Caselli, Senior advisor at the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma, and the Greek journalist and documentarist Niovi Anazikou, trained in trauma-related safeguarding in reporting in Greece on this workshop that will work on three levels:

1. Introduce the idea of trauma in childhood, and how it affects the people interviewed or people who are the subject of a media story.
2. Explain and highlight the institutional framework and discuss international best and common practices in safeguarding, including an emphasis on ethical cinematography, imaging, editing.
3. Practical Workshop, in which journalists will be divided in pairs to do a simulation of an interview setting.

Speakers