#MakingHistory X ANNIVERSARY EDITION UN JOURNAL FB.COM/MUNUR.ORG/ WWW.UROSARIO.EDU.CO/MUNUR/ GET READY TO MAKE HISTORY Index: COMMITTEE 4 PRESENTATION HISTORY 6 OF THE COMMITTEE THE PROBLEMATIC IN 8 CURRENT JOURNALISM 10 PRESS: a. What is a press reporter, b. e ideal press reporter, c. Why news matter, COMMITTEE 11 PROCEDURE COMMITTEE 12 OVERVIEW POSITION 13 PAPER FINAL 14 REMARKS 15 BIBLIOGRAPHY COMMITTEE PRESENTATION Francesca Tiravanti’s letter Welcome everyone to MUNURX! My name is Francesca Tiravanti and alongside Vale, I will be your director for this edition of MUNUR. I am currently studying Law at Universidad de Lima (Peru) and this is my second time at this conference. My MUN journey began in school when I joined the debate team, and when I entered University in 2016, I became part of Peruvian Debate Society (PDS). As a delegate, I have traveled to Boston, Panama, Bogota, and Madrid, debating in dierent committees with dierent topics, including the Press Corps (my rst committee ever), so this committee carries great value to me. What I value most about this committee is how challenging it is to highlight not only the skills you will need to communicate what is happening but also to relate and work along with delegates from other committees. Since this a very divergent committee, we expect you to live up to the challenge of broadcasting the day to day events of the conference with creativity and enthusiasm. I hope you are as excited as I am for this journey to begin in November, until then if you have any doubts please feel free to contact us with any questions! See you soon! Francesca Tiravanti 4 COMMITTEE PRESENTATION Valeria Mas Amorós’ letter Hello everyone and welcome to MUNURX! My name is Valeria Mas Amorós and this time, along with Fran, I have the honor of being your director at the UN Journal Committee. Currently, I am a nal year law student at the University of Lima in Peru and I also work at a law rm as a litigation intern, so public speaking is a quality I always look for in delegates. In this case, this committee is particularly special to me because it is where I started my MUN life. Since then, I have had the opportunity to travel around the world and meet people from dierent cultures, which has been one of the highlights of my life. erefore, that is exactly the characteristic I appreciate most about MUN Conferences: the connections you end up creating. For this reason, in this Committee, I hope to see this characteristic reected in all of you, by means of the ways in which you integrate the dierent topics that are discussed in each Committee, although at rst glance they seem totally dierent. However, what I expect most from you is that you have fun and enjoy a Conference as multicultural as MUNURX, believe me, that I will have it. So without further do again, I welcome you to our Committee. Please, in case of doubt, don't hesitate to write me or Fran. See you in November! Valeria Mas Amorós 5 HISTORY OF THE COMMITTEE: e history of UN Journal dates back to the beginning of the United Nations itself and by relation, to the creation of the United Nations Correspondents Association (UNCA), founded in 1948 at Lake Success on Long Island, USA. In its inception, it counted with approximately 50 members (from USA and Canada agencies) but now is considered a professional organization of over 200 journalists from over 150 countries, which represents scores of publications, news agencies, and broadcasters from all regions of the world. e UNCA represents the United Nations “press corps”, they have an agreement with the Secretary-General that dates back to 1995, in which the UNCA is recognized as the ocial independent organization in charge of representing and reporting and decisions made at the UN. is committee is annually recognized in a resolution adopted by the General Assembly, under the mandate of the Committee to Review United Nations Public Information Policies and Activities, that was established under the GA Resolution 33/115 in 1978, this is also known as the “Committee on Information”. On resolution 34/182 of 1979, the General Assembly dened what the mandate of this committee would be, establishing it as follows: “To continue to examine United Nations public information policies and activities, in the light of the evolution of international relations, particularly during the past two decades, and of the imperatives of the establishment of the new international economic order and of a new world information and communication order; To evaluate and follow up the eorts made and the progress achieved by the United Nations system in the eld of information and communications; and To promote the establishment of a new, more just and more eective world information and communication order intended to strengthen peace and international understanding and based on the free circulation and wider and better-balanced dissemination of information and to make recommendations thereon to the General Assembly.” (United Nations, 1979) 6 HISTORY OF THE COMMITTEE: Since its creation, the UNCA has worked to bring correspondents from all around the world, diplomats, and departments of public information together, to promote the eciency of journalism and freedom of the press, therefore organizing press conferences, social gatherings, and even an annual awards event.(United Nations Correspondents Association, 2016) Showing the devotion of the UNCA has for publishing the truth and nothing but the truth, their main objective is to promote interconnectivity, by facilitating the contact between a member of the UN and citizens from dierent civilizations. As part of the press corps, in this conference you would have access to every committee that’s UN related (aka, committees of the general assembly and the economic and social council) meaning that you will count with vast information and liberty, you would also be granted full access to acquire any information you would require, for instance, interviews from the delegates, directors, and sta members. 7 THE PROBLEMATIC IN CURRENT JOURNALISM With the growth of the internet, the world has now entered an unprecedented age of technological change. is new digital era has left very few things in society untouched, one of the most aected industries being us, media industry and subsequently journalism. As the media industry has had to adapt to these changing platforms, populations, and behaviors, it has seen the rise of signicant new types of journalism along with the escalation of considerable challenges. Print journalism has seen a decline with the rise of the internet that has only intensied in recent years as it associated with technology. At the same time, forms of digital journalism have grown exponentially and entirely new publications, journals, newspapers, and more have arisen to take advantage of the “Internet Age.” Similarly, older forms of media and print journalism have also adapted and become more digital in nature to address these shifts. e digital platforms that the media industry now utilizes, such as websites and social media outlets, have revolutionized the exchange of information. ey have allowed for the distribution of millions of stories to ow virtually unchecked and uninhibited. As the world has become more accustomed and overwhelmed by the vast amount of media, journalism, and overall information being showcased to them every day (especially online), an entirely new challenge has developed – fake news. “Fake news” also known as media or journalism which encompasses hoaxes, deception, and misinformation is in sharp contrast to the objective or accurate media that the world most often consumes, and wish to encounter. Fake news publish untruthful articles not for the sake of humor but instead for the purpose of driving web trac, gaining internet virality, and ultimately generating prot. To achieve the highest impact, fake news organizations also employ similar journalistic styles as real news organizations. is includes using techniques like article structure and wording, to make it as dicult as possible for individuals to distinguish between fake and real news. ese imitation techniques are further enhanced by fake news organization’s approach of specically gaining the attention of specic groups or individuals who may think similarly or hold the same biases. 8 THE PROBLEMATIC IN CURRENT JOURNALISM ough some may argue that fake news is harmless, the eects that these organizations and articles carry can often be immense. Not only do they spread false information, but they inuence large masses of individuals. is type of inuence can sway national opinions, elections, and can foster disorder or conict between dierent groups of people. For example, Huzlers and World News Daily Report in 2018 reported an average of 9 fake news each. (Pham, 2018) e question then relays with the shift towards digital media and the rise of fake news, what can be done and what is the role that traditional and real media play? A question we encourage you to answer during the conference. One of the reasons that fake news grew so rapidly and became so indistinguishable was that they copied the way that traditional media outlets operated. To, therefore, make the dierence between fake and real news as clear and distinct as possible, any media outlet that considers themselves real news needs to be as objective and truthful as possible in their journalism. Traditional media outlets and real news organizations should publish articles for the sake of honestly informing the population rather than simply just trying to produce revenue. ey should report only events and things they know in certainty and limit biases in their work. 9 PRESS What is a press reporter: A reporter is a delegate who seeks information and knows how to objectively transmit the most relevant aspects of the decisions and problems that are happening in the various committees during the days of the conference.