Radio broadcaster MVS hires journalist to be its “ethical conscience”
Year: 2011
Assessing media partisanship at CJE’s third conference
The Center’s third conference on April 15 was timely and thought-provoking. We are so grateful to our sponsors for making the gathering possible, and to our excellent panelists and moderators for taking time out of their schedules. Video of the sessions is available now
Bin Laden photo: To Publish or Not to Publish?
Aussie newsman: The final images of Osama bin Laden pose tricky questions for editors. How grisly is too grisly?
Pakistani official: Gov’t committed to press freedom
Minister for Information and Broadcasting Dr. Firdous says free media essential to democracy, encourages scrutiny of govt. policies
Professor teaching underground amid new scrutiny of ethics
Popular Northwestern U journalism prof. on leave, investigation continues into tactics used by Innocence Project.
Who’s paying for your news?
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?
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 …