{"id":14159,"date":"2019-10-17T06:46:37","date_gmt":"2019-10-17T06:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=14159"},"modified":"2019-10-18T07:42:28","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T07:42:28","slug":"code-of-conduct-presented-by-cnc-raises-concerns-among-media-professionals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/code-of-conduct-presented-by-cnc-raises-concerns-among-media-professionals\/","title":{"rendered":"Code of conduct presented by CNC raises concerns among media professionals"},"content":{"rendered":"

The National Media Regulatory-CNC this Wednesday presented a code of conduct to the Burundian media for the 2020 elections. Some media professionals say they were not consulted during its preparation.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Nestor Bankumukunzi: \u201cBoth local and foreign journalists must abide by this code of conduct to prevent what happened in 2015 from happening again.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cEvery media organization operating in Burundi must comply with this code of conduct for the 2020 electoral process,\u201d says Nestor Bankumukunzi, Chairman of the National Media Regulatory \u2013CNC this October 16th after the presentation of its contents. The code of conduct offers three rights and twelve duties to the media and journalists.<\/p>\n

It requires them to respect the Burundian Constitution, the Press law and the law governing the CNC. The journalists and media that will cover the 2020 elections must broadcast and publish balanced and accurate information.<\/p>\n

On the ground, they will also have to have the press card delivered by the CNC. Of about 1500 journalists working in Burundi, only 500 have already got the press card.
\n\u201cOthers have not yet submitted the required documents,\u201d said Mr. Bankumukunzi.
\nHowever, the signing of the code of conduct raises concerns among some media professionals.
\nAbbas Mbazumutima, Deputy Chief Editor of Iwacu Press Group says it would have been better if media professions had given their views before signing it.
\n\u201cI cannot understand how CNC prepares a code of conduct for journalists and media without consulting them,\u201d he said, adding that he hopes that suggestions of those who didn\u2019t sign it will be taken into consideration.<\/p>\n

The same view is shared by On\u00e9sime Harubuntu, Chairman of the Association of Radio Stations broadcasting from Burundi-ABR.
\n\u201cI don\u2019t see the importance of signing this code of conduct whereas all media organizations must comply with it\u201d, he says.<\/p>\n

Among the media organizations present in the meeting, only Iwacu Press Group and Radio Isanganiro didn\u2019t sign the code of conduct.<\/p>\n

Nestor Bankumukunzi, Chairman of the National Media Regulatory-CNC, says those who didn\u2019t sign this code of conduct will send their suggestions in five days.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will include their suggestions and we hope that they will sign it during the next week,\u201d he says.
\nMr. Bankumukunzi also said the code of conduct concerns all national and foreign journalists. \u201cThey must abide by it so that we prevent what happened in 2015 from ever happening again<\/a>,\u201d he said adding that some media made some mistakes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The National Media Regulatory-CNC this Wednesday presented a code of conduct to the Burundian media for the 2020 elections. Some media professionals say they were not consulted during its preparation. \u201cEvery media organization operating in Burundi must comply with this code of conduct for the 2020 electoral process,\u201d says Nestor Bankumukunzi, Chairman of the National […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":14160,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,670],"tags":[1177,113],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14159"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14159"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14177,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14159\/revisions\/14177"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}