Year: 2019
Panel to discuss immigration reporting and journalism ethics
Madison, Wis. – The Center for Journalism Ethics will host a free public event – “On the Border and Beyond: Ethics and Immigration Reporting” – at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 25, at the Overture …
Doing no harm: the call for crime reporting that does justice to the beat
If you ask Carroll Bogert, crime news in the U.S. is broken. Building off renewed interest in the Central Park Five case spurred by Ava Duvernay’s Netflix series “When They See Us,” Bogert attacked …
Deepfake videos may have unwitting ally in US media
Left out: freelance journalists have no recourse against sexual harassment
Despite high-profile firings and policy changes after the #MeToo movement swept through newsrooms, a subset of news professionals often remains unprotected, largely unheard from and without recourse in cases of sexual misconduct: freelance journalists. …
Center for Journalism Ethics 2018-19
Director Katy Culver reports on what’s keeping nurses out of health news
Why should I tell you?: a guide to less-extractive reporting
“Not good enough”: gender imbalance drives efforts to use women as sources more often
Journalism has a gender problem. In 2019, according to the Women’s Media Center’s Status of Women in the U.S. Media report, men accounted for 63 percent of bylines and other credits in print, Internet, …
When news orgs cover their own scandals; media critics weigh in
As #MeToo accusations mounted against a number of high-profile media figures in 2017 and 2018, organizations faced questions of how sexual harassment and assault could fester unaddressed. But for individual journalists, particularly those who …