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Interviewing LaVar Ball (sometimes) is an ethical imperative
Have the Los Angeles Lakers players stopped responding to their head coach? LaVar Ball, the outspoken father of the team’s rookie point guard, thinks so. Last weekend, he told an ESPN reporter that Lakers Head …
Kaiser reflects on what he’s learned about journalism ethics
Marty Kaiser has spent a lot of time in newsrooms. His interest in journalism began as a child and he chased it through college before joining the Chicago Sun-Times and the Baltimore Sun. …
Reconsidering objective journalism without becoming partisan
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Mark Sappenfield, editor at the The Christian Science Monitor, and Christa Case Bryant, the Monitor’s heartland correspondent, said journalists need to reconsider objectivity as a goal of journalism without falling into partisan journalism. “The goal …
Rethinking objectivity in progressive communities: A Q&A with Sue Robinson
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Sue Robinson has navigated media ethics in a couple of different ways. First, as a reporter for more than a decade and now as a UW-Madison journalism professor researching how journalists use new communication …
Four members join advisory board
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]MADISON, Wisconsin – Four members, three alumni from the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, have joined the advisory board of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Journalism Ethics. Since its founding nine years ago, the …
Making the call: Determining when to call a political statement a lie
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Tom Beaumont is a national political reporter at the Associated Press. Beaumont answered some questions by phone about the ethical issues in reporting in an ever-changing, fast-paced news cycle. This interview was edited for clarity …
Technology complicates ethics of natural disaster reporting
More than a decade after covering Hurricane Katrina for The (New Orleans) Times-Picayune, John Pope, a member of the team that won two Pultizer Prizes, remembers how live-blogging, a relatively new media technology at the …
Stop scrambling for ‘why,’ and stop calling them ‘shooters’
By Katherine Reed Another week, another mass shooting in America. In addition to being heartsick, angry and frustrated, I am, as usual, distressed by the way mass shootings are reported in the breaking news cycle. …
Kim’s research might shine the light into the “dark” political advertisements
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Young Mie Kim, associate professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, founded Project DATA to study how political campaigns use digital media and data to reach an audience. Before Facebook, Twitter and …