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ICF MISSION STATEMENT

The International Communications Forum (ICF), founded in 1991, recognizes that the media is one of the world’s most powerful forces for good or ill. The media does not just report and reflect society but often shapes its direction. The ICF aims to:

  • strengthen public confidence in the media;
  • promote the bonds of trust within democratic societies;
  • inspire a commitment to service on the part of those who work in the media.

The ICF is committed to media ethics and the freedoms of expression and information. These need to be accompanied by a high sense of responsibility and respect for every audience. The ICF expects of media practitioners the same standards of integrity that they wish to see in all public servants. Through conferences and training programmes, ICF demonstrates its ethos on the basis of people-to-people and conscience-to-conscience dialogue.

LATEST NEWS September Newsletter
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
War reporting, phone hacking and press freedom under the spotlight at ICF’s annual visit to Lincoln University’s School of Journalism

The veteran former BBC war correspondent Martin Bell told journalism students at the University of Lincoln, UK, that ‘journalism is a moral undertaking. You have to have a sense of right and wrong’.
Monday, September 26, 2011
Leading Kosovo journalist emphasises media’s role in building her country

Bob Webb talks to Jeta Xharra, Executive Director of the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network, where he learns of the powerful role media play in the effort to eliminate corruption, raise living standards and otherwise make Kosovo a model country.
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Media needs to offer solutions, not hack phones

‘There is no place any more for bad journalism,’ following the News of the World phone hacking scandal, asserted Bernard Margueritte, President of the International Communications Forum, when he addressed the Festival of Politics held in the Scottish Parliament on 25 August.
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Media scandals force a rethink, says editor of The Times’ Scottish edition

‘All have a stake in the media,’ said Magnus Linklater, editor of the Scottish edition of The Times, participating in a round table discussion on ‘the media and public confidence’, in Edinburgh on 26 August. It was held in the Royal Scots Club and chaired by Revd Logan Kirk.
Tuesday, August 2, 2011
Call to the Media

A message from the participants at an international conference in Caux (Switzerland), dealing with the role of the media in creating an inclusive multicultural community, who urge the media to restore the credibility and dignity of their profession.
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