REFUGEES ASYLUM-SEEKERS & MEDIA (RAM) PROJECT
Promoting best practice in media representation of refugee and asylum issues
The MediaWise Trust, Unit 38, Easton Business Centre, Felix Road, Bristol BS5 0HE Tel +44(0)117 941 5889 Fax +44(0)117 941 5848
Stop Press - January 2006
GOODBYE RAM BULLETIN...HELLO EJN NEWSThis is the last edition of the RAM Bulletin, launched by MediaWise five years ago. But that does not mean the task of monitoring inaccurate coverage of asylum and refugee issues is over.
MediaWise will still be here to help anyone with complaints about coverage but, in line with a central theme of the Refugees, Asylum-seekers and the Media (RAM) Project, we are handing over RAM communications to the Exiled Journalists Network (EJN). A new style publication will go out from next month, produced under the editorial control of exiled journalists who have direct experience of the asylum system.
It will contain some of the regular features of the RAM Bulletin – news, analysis and features, and a diary of events. MediaWise will continue to provide use of the media tips but EJN News will reflect a fresh agenda – promoting press freedom and the best interests of refugees and asylum-seekers in the UK.
Our belief is that refugees are the best people to speak for refugees, and we hope that existing subscribers will continue to find the publication of value, and carry on contributing their own stories and ideas. The RAM Project website will remain in existence, but a new EJN website will also be launched with links to media outlets in many of the countries from which asylum-seekers have come. This should help interested parties
in the UK learn more about the conditions that lead people to seek refuge in safe havens.
We wish the EJN News well, and will continue to work with them to improve the standing and standards of journalists everywhere. For the time being they are based at our Bristol office.
We would also like to thank all those funders that have made the RAM Project and Bulletin possible, including the Barrow Cadbury Trust, Comic Relief, the Home Office Challenge Fund, the National Refugee Integration Forum, the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust, and the Open Society Foundation – which has agreed to back the EJN takeover of the RAM Bulletin.
To contact the EJN please email ejn@mediawise.org.uk If you need help with use-of-the-media training, or with advice about inaccurate stories please contact info@mediawise.org.uk.
See p4 for further details.
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