A small but important step forward has been taken towards the much-awaited “Reform of the Professional Order of Journalists.” Below, I am publishing on this blog the text from the Order of Journalists, following the milestone passed in the Chamber of Deputies’ Culture Committee. While awaiting the Senate’s decision, here is what can be read on the Order of Journalists’ website.
After 17,685 days (48 years) since the establishment of the Order of Journalists, the Chamber of Deputies has given its first reading approval of a mini-reform of the law on the Order of Journalists. We must thank the Culture Committee for their dedicated efforts, its president Valentina Aprea, the rapporteur Giancarlo Mazzuca, and, through the first signatory of the proposal, Pino Pisicchio, all the parliamentarians.
Some aspects are certainly positive: the introduction of a maximum number of Council members (set at 90 compared to the current 150, which are progressively increasing due to existing mechanisms), the requirement for professional journalists to have at least a three-year degree, and that aspiring publicists must pass a general culture exam that also attests, among other things, to their knowledge of the principles of professional ethics. These are rules that will contribute to improving the quality of information and, at the same time, fostering greater awareness of journalists’ responsibilities towards citizens.
Some bitterness and profound unease remain.
Among the first is the fact that the national ethical committee and the jury for the correctness of information were removed from the proposal. Both would have allowed for faster responses to citizens’ complaints about journalists’ behavior considered inappropriate.
The sense of unease is linked to the introduction of a relationship between professionals and publicists that greatly penalizes the latter. In its reform project, with a unanimous decision, and recently, on April 12, 2011, with a document (approved with 3 votes against and 4 abstentions out of 113 present), the National Council of the Order of Journalists had invited the Chamber to “leave to the regulatory authority of the Order the proportional distribution based on the evolving reality of the profession, providing for assessment during and at the end of the transition period.”
The hope is that the Senate will not only reinstate the ethical committee and the jury for the correctness of information but also allow the Order—certainly more knowledgeable about journalistic work, regardless of membership in the professional and publicist lists—to reflect internally in order to establish representation criteria that respect reality.
In this regard, there was a formal commitment made by President Aprea and rapporteur Mazzuca, who—on April 18, during a meeting with a delegation from the Order (composed of Enzo Iacopino, Enrico Paissan, Giancarlo Ghirra, Ugo Armati)—undertook to represent this need to the appropriate commission in the Senate.
The leadership of the Order considers itself bound by the will of the National Council and will represent, with the necessary arguments, the needs that underlie this request.
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