Salcito argues that national divisions are causing Malawian journalists to under-represent locals in their coverage of a major mining project in the less developed north. Last month production began in Malawi’s first ever foreign-developed mining …
Feature articles
Reflections of a Legacy Journalist
Lee Wilkins, University of Missouri, offers her candid thoughts — and worries — as she attended The Future of Ethical Journalism. It is almost impossible to attend a gathering of journalists — either of the …
Ethics Essential to Democratic Journalism
The future of journalism must include ethics, or journalism won’t serve democracy. That was a recurring theme among journalists, media scholars, and ethicists at “The Future of Ethical Journalism,” the first annual ethics conference of …
Venezuela’s Socialist Revolution: At the Expense of a Free & Independent Press?
Shakuntala Rao is Professor of Communication at State University of New York, Plattsburgh, USA. She was a visiting lecturer at Universidad Central de Venezuela in Caracas and at La Universidad del Zulia in Maracaibo in …
How can we save journalism?
Canadian journalist Alan Bass argues that journalists who worry about the future of newspapers are asking the wrong question. Rather than ask, ‘How can we save newspapers?’ we should ask, ‘How can we save journalism?’ …
Jumping into the ‘swirling maze’: How investigative journalism is being reborn
Surviving the Media Carnage Newspapers closing. Journalists let go. Old economic models to support journalism are imploding amid a media revolution. Two veteran journalists — an American and a Canadian — view the carnage and …
Who is Divided — Turkey or the Media?
What the Turkish and international public know about headscarves is as divided as the debate on lifting the ban. Not long after winning a landslide reelection victory last July, the mildly pro-Islamic Prime Minister of …
“Public” Problems in International Reporting: The Expanding Public Sphere
In the last of a four part series on special topics in journalism ethics, journalismethics.ca’s international reporting team analyzes the issues of nation building and the public interest in communities as diverse as South Africa …
An Insurmountable task? Reporting on AIDS in South Africa
HIV/AIDS is a contentious and sensitive topic to cover anywhere in the world. But reporting on HIV/AIDS in the South African context poses an especially complicated ethical challenge. Politicization of the pandemic, tensions surrounding the …
When public interest and community interests clash: A case study of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Reached on November 1st of 1995, the Dayton Peace Agreement is known as the agreement that ended the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The agreement created an institutional ethnic division in Bosnia through the creation …