{"id":278582,"date":"2019-06-10T16:42:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-10T20:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiTWh0dHA6Ly93d3cudGFkaWFzLmNvbS8wNi8xMC8yMDE5L2V0aGlvcGlhLWFyZS1hbm9ueW1vdXMtYmxvZ2dlcnMtam91cm5hbGlzdHMv0gEA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-28T11:31:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T15:31:07","slug":"tadias-asked-whether-anonymous-ethiopian-diaspora-bloggers-still-meet-basic-journalism-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/278582","title":{"rendered":"Tadias asked whether anonymous Ethiopian diaspora bloggers still meet basic journalism rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 10 June 2019 Tadias Magazine published Liben Eabisa\u2019s opinion essay asking whether anonymous contributors on Ethiopian diaspora websites should still follow core journalism habits such as transparency, sourcing facts, and giving named people a chance to respond.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-597608\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/addis-newspapers.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Tadias asked whether anonymous Ethiopian diaspora bloggers still meet basic journalism rules\" \/>\n<p>The piece said pen names were common on diaspora sites and argued that true anonymity is hard in the digital age, while pressing the ethical question of how unsigned political commentary that shapes Ethiopian debates abroad should be judged against ordinary reporting standards.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as press and media-ethics archive, the Tadias essay dates a diaspora debate about anonymous blogging and journalism standards in June 2019.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tadias.com\/06\/10\/2019\/ethiopia-are-anonymous-bloggers-journalists\/\">Tadias Magazine<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia: Are Anonymous Bloggers Journalists?&nbsp;&nbsp;Tadias MagazineTadias Magazine. By Liben Eabisa. Published: June 10th, 2019. New York (TADIAS) \u2014 Some of the basic tenets of journalism include being transparent, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":597608,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/addis-newspapers.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1atg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278582"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755127,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278582\/revisions\/755127"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/597608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}