Online registration for the conference is now closed. But, we will accept registration at the door. The registration desk will be near the doors of the Varsity Rooms of Union South’s second floor. The conference …
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 …
Engaged journalists need to confront ethical questions
I’ll go ahead and admit it: In early December, as I finished drafting this “Redefining Engagement” series, I began wondering if I’d missed something big along the way. “I’m still uneasy about some of the …
Rewriting history: Anniversary stories, shared memory and minority voices
by Meagan Doll & Steven Wang, CJE fellows “What is often a winner is a story that the audience largely finds familiar with perhaps a palatable twist in it,” Mascall-Dare said. “What I found is …
Making 2016 the Year of Engaged Media Ethics
Last year was one of challenging questions for media in the airing of graphic video: from Fox News’ decision to air a brutal video of a pilot being burned alive by ISIS to a 60 Minutes …
Ethics in the News – Dec. 15
News media are raising questions about the mystery owners of one of their own. A division of Gatehouse Media sold the Las Vegas Review-Journal this week to News + Media Capital Group. The owners of …
Ethics in the news – Dec. 8
The group representing black journalists is in serious financial trouble, according to a Huffington Post story Monday. The National Association of Black Journalists is in such dire straights, it is considering using a Ford Foundation …
A Different Lens on Race, Media and Ethics
I never thought I would write this: I was troubled by something, and Donald Trump helped me figure it out. Coming off the recent confrontation between protesters and journalists at the University of Missouri, I …
Activist challenges the newsworthiness of violent police videos
Despite social action spurred by released videos, one activist doesn’t think that footage of violent confrontations between police and citizens is the answer to changing popular culture. Matthew Braunginn, co-founder of the Young Gifted and …
Saving the date: April 29
Have you put it on the calendar yet? The annual conference will be April 29, 2016. This year, the conference topic is race, ethnicity and journalism ethics. The easiest way to learn about important updates, …