More and more news content is being produced by nonprofit organizations, which often provide content free of charge to other media. But who is funding these nonprofits, and does it matter whether their donors are anonymous?
Month: April 2011
Prof. Ward wins UW “Outreach Excellence” award
The Wisconsin Alumni Association has selected Stephen Ward, director for the Center for Journalism Ethics and a distinguished professor in the School of Journalism & Mass Communications at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, as the 2011 recipient of the Ken and Linda Ciriacks Alumni Outreach Excellence Award.
The Fall and Rise of Partisan Journalism
You don’t need to have a degree in history — or even to have paid much attention when you suffered the US history survey course as an undergraduate — to know that American newspapers were very partisan in the 19th century. “Editors,” wrote one historian, “unabashedly shaped the news and their editorial comment to partisan purposes.
Internationally, media “partisanship” has many facets
Partisanship in the media is by no means an American phenomenon, and it has many different manifestations abroad, a panel of four experts discussed Friday at the 2011 UW-Madison journalism ethics conference. The speakers talked …
Polling the People: Shortcomings of the Press
Wisconsin just went through a Supreme Court election with a historically high voter turnout rate, but there weren’t any polls in the run-up to election day. In fact, statewide polls in general are lacking, according …
Partisan Media and Public Perception
Journalists and scholars discussed the difference between a biased public and a biased media at last Friday’s third annual ethics conference at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. In the process, they introduced the “hostile …
Dan Flannery wins Ethics Award
The Center honored newsman Dan Flannery, executive editor of the Post Crescent in Appleton, Wis., with the Wisconsin Commitment to Journalism Ethics Award on Friday, April 15.
Georgian groups unite to protect journalists’ rights
New “Coalition for Media Advocacy” pushes ethics, international standards
Journalists discuss ethics, income, advertising
All Manipuri Working Journalists’ Union holds daylong ethics workshop
News stories can be evidence in espionage trial
Former NSA worker charged with leaking classified info to reporter, says stories will help his defense