Professionalism best mechanism to protect journalists, expert says
Journalists need to be more professional in their reporting, which is the best way to protect themselves, a media educator says. “Like any other profession, journalism can be risky, but if journalists follow their professional codes of conduct and ethics and work with responsibility, there should be no problems for them,” Som Ratana, deputy director of the department of media and communication at the Royal University of Phnom Penh, told “Hello VOA” on Monday. In fact, Cambodia can be quite dangerous for reporters, and nearly a dozen murders of journalists over the years have gone unsolved. In recent labor demonstration crackdowns, several journalists were injured. …
