The language of journalism ethics today is like bad Irish stew – a mishmash of different and conflicting ideas, rules, and practices.
Ethical mumbo-jumbo.
Tough Times Call for More Ethics, Not Less
Doing ethics in journalism has never been easy.
Across the history of modern journalism, journalists have struggled against economic and political powers to be independent and responsible public communicators.
The Incredible Shrinking Journalist
Journalism educators need to actively respond to these trends by developing a clear conception of the distinct nature and overriding social value of journalism in a digital democracy.
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 …
Ignorance Is Not Bliss: Impacts of Trauma on Journalists
“It was a cool Tuesday in December 2005 and I almost got on board a C-130 plane, which was bound for a war-game zone on the northern coast of the Persian Gulf,” remembers 38-year-old Iranian …
Positive news and the television news audience
“Growing up in Vancouver, we always had two newspapers. When I moved to the [Sunshine] Coast I always had at least one and would watch probably the early news and the 11 o’clock news in …
Does ‘Caring’ Require Advocacy in Journalism?
by Elecia Chrunik Journalists expose the world to the spectrum of humanity’s achievements and atrocities. Meanwhile, they are discouraged from becoming directly entangled in the world that they report on so they do not affect …