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Children and the Media: A Guidebook on Ethical Reporting

Sofia: UNICEF;Association of European Journalists - Bulgaria (2019), 50 pp.

ISBN 978-619-7307-08-5

"A key element of the guidebook are the follow-up questions, which can guide us in the right direction when children feature in our stories. Some of the questions focus on written rules—for example, making sure we have complied with all the laws—but others target the “unwritten” rules, the territory of ethics and morality. Questions of the latter type are not always straightforward and may require us to try putting ourselves in the place of the child, imagining how they feel or how our actions might affect their feelings. As the popular phrase goes, we must “walk in their shoes." (Page 3)