The Associated Press has won the 2016 Anthony Shadid Award for Journalism Ethics for reporting that resulted in the freeing of 2,000 slave laborers used by the fishing industry in Southeast Asia. The award will …
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Conference tomorrow: Find schedule here
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 …
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 …
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 – Nov. 24
CNN journalist in a Nov. 19 tweet reported the passage of a House bill on immigration that could limit the number of Syrians the U.S. accepts. Then, she tacked on a sentence: Later that …
The Art of Covering Donald Trump: Ten Strategies for Journalists
He has been called a “sham.” His campaign was initially dismissed as a “charade.” The Huffington Post relegated him to the entertainment page. And while elections experts maintain that he still is not the most …
Marijuana reviews: Advocating vice?
Dining out at a restaurant, watching a show or buying a book—you can always refer to a review on a local newspaper before making the decision. Now you can do the same thing for getting …
Ethics in the News – Oct. 20
In the wake of a report about the extent of philanthropic money given to education journalism, ethicists are discussing what the proper relationship between targeted money and journalism should look like. A new blog looking …
Ethics in the News Oct. 6
The deadly campus shooting Thursday at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon, that left 10 dead and others injured conjured up familiar ethics debates about reporting in post-tragedy environments. Notably, conversation circulated around the naming …
Sensationalism or a Call to Action: Covering the Syrian Refugee Crisis
I met a Syrian refugee this June. Sitting across from me in a crowded Beirut café, the young man told me how he’d escaped from Syria and started working as a news fixer in Lebanon—arranging …