Proceedings of a conference held March 29-30, 2001, in Berlin. Includes bibliographical references. Contents: An intercultural basis for an ethic of journalism / Hans K�ung -- Islam and the West : clash or cooperation? / Ghassan Salam� -- Journalism ethics : the mass media's role in transnational relations / Alfred Grosser -- Journalism ethics revisited : a comparison of ethics codes in Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, and Muslim Asia / Kai Hafez -- Negotiating global media ethics / Majid Tehranian -- Freedom, "blasphemia" and moral responsibility of the journalist / Wolfgang Wunden -- Freedom as value in Arab media : perceptions and attitudes among journalists / Hussein Amin -- American-style journalism and television in the Arab world : an exploratory study of news selection at six Arab television channels / Muhammed I. Ayish -- Media ethics in Malaysia and South-East Asia : what price Asian values? / Joseph Milton Fernando -- The role of journalism associations and trade unions in the democratic transition of Morocco / Fatima Boutarkha -- Journalists' organizations and associations of self-regulation in Algeria / M. Rabah Abdellah -- The future of journalistic self-regulation and journalism associations in Egypt and the Arab world / Ibrahim Nafie -- Regulation and self-regulation : the role of media commissions and professional bodies in the Muslim world / Achim Vogt -- Journalism associations in the consolidation of democracy : Indonesian self-regulation as a role model for the Muslim world? / Ati Nurbaiti -- Internationalism and interculturalism as a value in German journalism / Lutz Tillmanns -- International comparative perspectives on journalism associations and trade unions / Siegfried Weischenberg -- Peace journalism as ethical challenge with special reference to the Balkans, the Arabs, and Islam / Johan Galtung -- Something to be done : transnational media monitoring / Kaarle Nordenstreng -- The need for a global association of independent press councils / Anthony L�owstedt -- Transnational complaints mechanisms as viewed by the World Association of Press Councils / Oktay Eksi -- Dialogue of cultures and the Internet : a turning point in the ethics of international communications? / Hans J. Kleinsteuber -- The OSCE, Islam, and the media / Freimut Duve, Alexander Nitzsche, Ana Karlsreiter.