Serious violations of guidelines: ZDF withdraws correspondent

The review concluded that “the Violations against ZDF-Guidelines and journalistic standards weigh so heavily,” the broadcaster said in a statement.

According to the information, the correspondent was on behalf of the editorial staff Lunch magazine and today journal about the fear of children in New York, among others Arrests by the American ICE authorities reported. The contribution for that Lunch magazine was not objectionable, but the correspondent was responsible for it today journal been adapted.

Completely different context

“In the new version she used two video scenes from the Internet,” the statement said. I have a scene from one of these completely different context that the other scene was AI-generated. The ZDF explained that the AI-generated material should not have been used without journalistic justification and without classification. “A review of the other video scene and its origin, as required by journalistic standards, was not carried out,” it said.

The final editorial of the today journals This should have been noticed when the contribution was accepted. ZDF-Editor-in-Chief Bettina Schausten said according to the announcement that it was essentially about the credibility the ZDF-Go reporting.

“We are currently working on one Catalog of measures“In order to ensure consistently that the high journalistic standards to which we are committed are adhered to at all times and without restriction.”