Guidelines for safe and professional reporting on coronavirus COVID-19
Furthermore, the purpose of these Guidelines is to provide basic information for the protection of journalists and media workers in the performance of their field duties and in newsrooms and studios.
Journalists and media workers are exposed to risks during their field work, in the newsrooms and in their television and radio reporting studios. Such risks are on the rise amid officially declared pandemic by the World Health Organization.
These guidelines should direct journalists and media workers to self-protection, but also to protect others around them, during performance of their duties. The media, in addition to providing ethical reporting on the situation with the coronavirus pandemic, also educate the public through their self-awareness, which is part of the crisis management solution.