Efforts to promote journalism standards on a worldwide level are as old as inter national organizations of journalists and date back almost 100 years. This study of an American initiative, the 1920s Press Congress of the World, found that ethics and standards were discussed and stressed as desirable at the meetings of the Congress but that, beyond resolutions, few concrete results were achieved. The main reason for the lack of results was the failure of the organization to perpetuate itself and to achieve a broad-based and representative membership.
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