The Limits of Memory and the News: Archival Journalism, Law, Ethics, and the Right to be Forgotten

IF 1.3 Q2 COMMUNICATION Revista de Comunicacion-Peru Pub Date : 2022-03-18 DOI:10.26441/rc21.1-2022-a4

Rodrigo Cetina Presuel, Fernando José Gutiérrez Atala

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The right to be forgotten has been widely discussed from a legal perspective. Courts have analyzed the existence and constitutional compatibility of the right in the national legal order of several jurisdictions around the world. However, even if the right to be forgotten is not a universally recognized right, by understanding how the law approaches tensions that arise between the right to freedom of expression and the rights to seek, impart and receive information, on one hand, and a right to be forgotten, underpinned by the rights to honor, privacy and personal data protection on the other, journalists can extract ethical guidelines that can orient them in the correct use of archival information about individuals to report on current events. This work begins by explaining how legal debates can help inform ethical discussions about journalism. Then, by exploring the legal development and justifications for the right to be forgotten and identifying key elements of this emerging right, we engage in a discussion around the use of archives and memory in journalism and then identify the elements that journalists should consider in relation to the use of archival information in their profession in a way that allows them to fulfill their journalistic duties without ignoring the legal context.

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记忆与新闻的界限：档案新闻、法律、伦理与被遗忘权

被遗忘权从法律角度被广泛讨论。法院分析了该权利在世界上几个司法管辖区的国家法律秩序中的存在及其宪法兼容性。然而，即使被遗忘权不是一项普遍承认的权利，通过了解法律如何处理言论自由权和寻求、传递和接收信息的权利与被遗忘权和以荣誉、隐私和个人数据保护为基础的权利之间出现的紧张关系，记者可以提取道德准则，引导他们正确使用有关个人的档案信息来报道当前事件。这项工作从解释法律辩论如何有助于新闻伦理讨论开始。然后，通过探索被遗忘权的法律发展和理由，并确定这一新兴权利的关键要素，我们围绕新闻中档案和记忆的使用进行讨论，然后确定记者在其职业中使用档案信息时应该考虑的要素，从而使他们能够在不忽视法律背景的情况下履行新闻职责。

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Revista de Comunicacion-Peru COMMUNICATION-

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期刊介绍： The Revista de Comunicación is an academic journal of the School of Communication of the Universidad de Piura. The publication aims to disseminate material of high theoretical, philosophical, methodological and empirical quality, on issues of communication developed in both the academic and professional field. The editorial criterion that leads the publication is the knowledge acquired through research on communication issues and their practice. The content and selection criteria of the articles in the publication agree with the purposes that inspire the Guiding Principles of the Universidad de Piura. It is aimed at academics, scientists, information professionals, the communication industry, and students of Communication Faculties. Revista de Comunicación is a non-profit project. It does not pay the authors, nor does it charge for the costs of processing the articles and nor for their publication. The journal provides immediate Open Access to its printed and digital content.