The Ethical Journalism Network is an unprecedented effort to promote an ethical renaissance based on transparency, self regulation, and good governance. We are a global coalition of media professional groups and journalism support organisations. It works across all platforms of the media, information and communications landscape to support joint actions with the following aims To support and highlight actions of the Network members and supporters and their efforts to promote high standards of transparency, good governance, ethical conduct and self-regulation in journalism; To prepare reports and surveys on issues of interest for media and journalists that will raise awareness of the ethical and governance challenges facing media and journalism around the world; To create and support an information and communications portal of the Network dedicated to the promotion of ethics and good governance and to promote activities of all Network members in this area; To support actions that will encourage dialogue with the audience and wider society that will raise awareness of the important role played by ethical journalism in building democracy and informed society; To carry out practical actions, including training, raising-awareness and educational work at international level designed to strengthen journalism, to create editorial independence in media and to build public trust in journalism; To support the creation of transparent, accessible and independent systems of self-regulation, without political interference, that will respond to the concerns and complaints of citizens at national level while promoting and defending the global principles of media independence, information pluralism and ethical journalism.