Kyodo News announced that the reporter had sent the recorded data when interviewing the study group of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare to six outside interviewees by e-mail, and the information obtained from the interview was sent outside the company for purposes other than reporting. Two reporters and three bosses were disciplined on the 12th for deviating from reporter ethics due to the leaked act.
According to Kyodo News, on the 20th of last month, a reporter from the Social Affairs Department of the Tokyo head office made a restricted recording when interviewing a study group on drug countermeasures such as cannabis of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, and recorded the audio data at the Osaka branch office. I sent it to a reporter in the Social Affairs Department of.
A reporter from the Social Affairs Department of the Osaka branch tweeted multiple times in a way that the speaker and a part of the content of the statement could be understood, and then sent an email to six outsiders who met in a cannabis-related interview with voice data and memos made in letters. It means that it was sent by.
A protest from the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, which noticed the tweet, revealed a problem, and Kyodo News said that the act of leaking the information obtained from the interview to the outside for purposes other than reporting deviates from reporter ethics. On the 12th, the reporter of the Social Affairs Department of the Osaka branch office was suspended for a week, the reporter of the Social Affairs Department of the head office who recorded the salary was reduced, and three people including the head office and the social department manager of Osaka, who are the bosses, were reduced in salary and disciplinary action was taken.
The tweet was deleted, and the six outsiders who provided the information were also asked to delete it.
Kyodo News commented, "We apologize to the people concerned and will strive to prevent recurrence."