Blogs Posts in Journalism Ethics category; 114 blog posts

Public culture, independent online news and the Tasmanian Ti...

This article presents a case study of an independent online news site, the Tasmanian Times (http://www.tasmaniantimes.com), to highlight and analyse a number of critical issues in contemporary media culture and journalism practice. These is [...]

Posted On : Apr, 03 2007 | Comments : 0

News values for consumer groups

National news agencies, staffed by fewer than a dozen journalists per shift in some cases, are able to produce ready-made news bulletins for hundreds of national and regional radio stations. These bulletins are tailor made to meet target au [...]

Posted On : Apr, 02 2007 | Comments : 0

Communicating separation?

Western European countries currently face much immigration from Eastern Europe and Asia. In Germany, Turkish migrants are the largest ethnic minority. Cohabitation is not yet a success story: some observers even fear the development of two [...]

Posted On : Apr, 02 2007 | Comments : 0

Ethics for Photo Journalism

Photojournalism works within the same ethical approaches to objectivity that are applied by other journalists. What to shoot, how to frame and how to edit are constant considerations. A photojournalist is a mixture of a cool, detached profe [...]

Posted On : Apr, 02 2007 | Comments : 0

Factual reporting demands Accuracy and standards

If we talk about the factual reporting, there are certain ethical values which are to be followed by a journalist. First of all reporters are expected to be as accurate as possible given the time allotted to story preparation and the space [...]

Posted On : Apr, 01 2007 | Comments : 0

Journals and Academic Authenticity

The growing volume of E-Journals and other material on the World Wide Web is creating a kind of fatigue for the academic circles such as Harvard, Cambridge, Oxford, and so on. Why is that? It is because of credibility. Much of the material [...]

Posted On : Mar, 30 2007 | Comments : 0

What is citizen journalism?

There is no easy answer to this question and depending on whom you ask you are likely to get very different answers. Some have called it networked journalism, open source journalism, and citizen media. Communication has changed greatly with [...]

Posted On : Mar, 29 2007 | Comments : 0

Ethics of online journalism

Online journalism also have to follow the ethics that are not very different then that of print journalism. First responsibility of journalist is to avoid plagiarism. He must not steal others' work.Such theft is plagiarism. It includes not [...]

Posted On : Mar, 28 2007 | Comments : 0

Harm Limitation Principle

A reporter is supposed to work on his assignment by gathering facts and details, conducting interviews, doing research, background checks, taking photos, video taping, recording sound. But what ever he gathered from his sources is no [...]

Posted On : Mar, 27 2007 | Comments : 0

The Master Narrative in Journalism

Individual reports we can summarize, index, and criticize, especially today with the explosion of citizen critics on the Web. A given work of journalism will have an author’s byline, but in some measure the author is always “jou [...]

Posted On : Mar, 27 2007 | Comments : 0

Dead Journalism

Dead, more or less, but curiously profitable. In fact, it’s stranger than that. The newspaper industry is basically dead— in “strategic peril” at a minimum—and the fact that it’s still (highly) profitable [...]

Posted On : Mar, 26 2007 | Comments : 0

Respect for truth - The first duty of Journalist

While talking about the ethics of journalism, first thing is to respect for truth and for the right of the public to know the truth is the first duty of the journalist. The International Federation of Journalist’s (IFJ) declaration of [...]

Posted On : Mar, 26 2007 | Comments : 0

Ethnic Minority

Posted On : Mar, 25 2007 | Comments : 0

Journalism is done for Public

Journalism can be a commercial thing, done for money, or a noncommercial thing, done for love. It may be done as a public service, a way of entering into political debate, or for the simple and practical reasons people have always shared in [...]

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