“Only the truth, the full and unvarnished truth”

The Foreign Press asked Thomas Barat, Director of Ethics and Compliances of Association of Foreign Press Correspondents USA, and the Editor in Chief of the eCCO Magazine, about the ethics of journalism, the role of the correspondent.
Thomas Barat summarized his answer as follows: “When you speak, what you say, should be always the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. Only full and unvarnished truth.”
The full interview was published on Foreignpress.org.

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Professional journalism: ethics and responsibilities

We live in a new communications galaxy. In the last 150 years or so more has changed in the world of communication than in any time in history. New tools of communication have been developed at rapid speed. Mankind’s communication history is divided into four main stages: oral communications, written, then printed communications ( Gutenberg), electronic communications (von Neumann architecture ) and most recently communications based on photonic technologies.

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