If there is one thing we’ve learned from years of judging at intercollegiate debate tournaments across the country, it is that the best decisions are made when both sides are held to the highest standards …
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How to teach the ethics of using eyewitness video
When journalism students visit our offices at WITNESS to learn about video and human rights advocacy, the most common questions we hear are on the ethics of using eyewitness footage: How do you verify a …
Disrupting journalism ethics: Going ‘radical’
To speak of journalism ethics today is to speak in the future and normative tense. What should journalism ethics look like, in the not too distant future, if it is to be an adequate guide …
How Gannett used engaged ethics to help kids in crisis
I still remember the feeling I had when I read the first lines of the story. “The mics are off and the lenses capped,” reporter Rory Linnane wrote. “We’re wrapping up the interview, getting ready …
Anna Therese Day and the jailed journalists whose stories we never hear
The UW-Madison community is still recovering from the shock of UW alum Anna Therese Day’s recent arrest in Bahrain. Day and her crew were in Bahrain over the weekend, covering the anniversary of the Gulf …