It is hard to describe Anthony Shadid in one word. Speakers at the 2012 Journalism Ethics Conference made that very clear when speaking about Shadid, UW-Madison alumni and former Center for Journalism Ethics advisory board …
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Many thanks to our conference speakers and participants!
Once again, the Center is grateful for the energy and dedication of all who participated in our 4/13/12 conference, Ethics & Elections: Media, Money & Power in 2012. Special thanks to our technical crew, and …
3rd Global Media Ethics Roundtable: A meeting of minds
Most scholars, media professionals, and journalists agree that globalization has been responsible for major transformations in the structures of media production and reception. As media worlds get rearranged, it becomes necessary to focus on the ethical principles that underlie media practices and content around the world. The Global Media Ethics Project (GME)
CJE ANNOUNCES NEW SERIES, “MEDIA ETHICS ON THE DIGITAL FRONTIER”
The Center for Journalism Ethics introduces its first edition of the Media Ethics on the Digital Frontier online publication series. The series seeks to stimulate public debate on the most important ethical issues confronting media and journalism today.
Advancing editorial integrity in public media
The digital age is fundamentally transforming how journalists create news and finance their projects. Fundamental change creates new problems but also new opportunities.
Review: Fast Media/Media Fast
When the demands of e-mail, junk mail, headlines, and upgrades begin to out-pace a user’s attention span, mass media fatigue sets in, often times leading to complacency.
Media and the hard truth about suicides
Recent suicides and sudden deaths of former NHL enforcers have stirred up debate about the NHL’s support system for hockey players during their career – and after they retire.
Rethinking Journalism Ethics, Objectivity in the Age of Social Media
As the media environment continues its rapid evolution, journalism schools search for new approaches to journalism education. There is pressure in some academic programs to relax or abandon long-standing principles of the craft, like neutrality and objective reporting. Not so fast, argues Stephen Ward.
Weinergate: Sexting, lies and the mediascape
Journalist and media scholar Katherine Bell analyses the roots of the frenetic news coverage of the Anthony Weiner scandal. The media don’t simply record the first draft of our hyper-mediated history, she writes. They too are marinating in the cultural soup that gave us this most visual of 21st century stories. American media culture, she writes, is “a place where powerful Puritan morals sit next to an obsession with sex, sexuality and the body.”
Why transparency is not enough: The Case of Mr. Mike
Canadian journalist Ira Basen analyzes the seminal case of prominent tech blogger Mike Arrington to underline the confusing and controversial issue of conflicts of interest among “new media” writers such as bloggers. He argues that their mantra, “transparency is the new objectivity,” has limitations. Stating that you are biased or that you have a conflict of interest may not be enough to produce trustworthy journalism. Maybe neutrality – or having no agenda – is still the best ethical approach to good journalism.