Reporting on Justin Gillis’s keynote address at the 2018 “Division, Denial & Journalism Ethics” conference at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. In recent years, Justin Gillis, former lead writer on climate science at The New York …
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Investigative journalism and infrastructure failures: A Q&A with Brant Houston
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]A pedestrian bridge on Florida International University’s campus collapsed March 15, 2018, killing nine people and injuring six more. Brant Houston, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Chair in Investigative and Enterprise Reporting …
A Q&A with Lindsay Palmer, author of ‘Becoming the Story’
Lindsay Palmer is an assistant professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at UW-Madison. She focuses mostly on international news from a qualitative perspective, as well as global media ethics as part of …
Newsrooms have an ethical obligation to address the power structure of internships; Jill Geisler is bringing that front and center
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Jill Geisler, the newly appointed Newseum Institute Fellow in Women’s Leadership, recently modered a program which focused on what interns, employers and educators should know and should do to maintain ensure workplace integrity. The Center …
Why we need “feminist” human rights journalism
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Editor’s note: Lindsay Palmer led Cultures in Conflict: Navigating Cultural Difference in International Human Rights Reporting conference Feb. 9 and 10, which was co-sponsored by the Center for Journalism Ethics. Information about the conference is …
Solutions to low media trust not clear
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]One of the researchers of a study that finds Republicans and supporters of President Donald Trump have far more negative attitudes toward the press than Democrats and Trump opponents, doubts that incremental changes in news …
Local markets are adopting drones, and facing ethical issues
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Drones aren’t just for large newsrooms. Brittany Schmidt, journalist and reporter for WBAY-TV in Green Bay, said drones are especially important for small and mid-size news markets. “Instead of talking about the remodeling of …
Keeping journalists safe abroad is about ethics
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_video link=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLa8dp-Jh5s”][vc_column_text]Too many young journalists go into high-risk areas without proper safety training, without identifying mentors and without a true plan of what they’re going to do when they arrive, said Bruce Shapiro, director of …
Reporting on Nassar: It takes a toll
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Read Part 2: Gould’s advice to other journalism instructors, “Teaching students to cover stories that hit close to home.” It takes a toll. At first, you try to ignore it. …
Teaching students to cover the stories that hit close to home
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator][vc_column_text] Editor’s note: This compilation of teaching tips is a companion piece to the author’s essay on what it was like to teach student journalists to cover events that affected the campus community deeply. Read …