Blogs Posts in Journalism Ethics category; 111 blog posts

Journalism began 2011 with a lopsided set of ethics

It may have made it to Wembley Arena, but this was the year in which The X Factor became an ordinary television show. A year ago, after an improbable run of increasing ratings, the progress of Simon Cowell Industries was studied by seriou [...]

Posted On : Dec, 19 2011 | Comments : 0

News Corp's Will Lewis to talk about journalistic ethics

The final session of the world editors' forum in Vienna next month is entitled "Profit, public interest, ethics – where to draw the line?" I'm chairing the panel, which should be fun given that one of the participa [...]

Posted On : Sep, 28 2011 | Comments : 0

Journalism: but where are the ethics?

When chair of the session, Leslie Cannold (ethicist and columnist for the Sun Herald) first mentioned the name 'Alan Jones' it received a heckle from the audience. The second mention received many heckles but lead to much [...]

Posted On : Aug, 08 2011 | Comments : 0

What an American journalist might tell Rupert Murdoch about ...

What would an American journalist tell Rupert Murdoch if she could lunch with him? I pondered that and other questions from London, having crossed the pond this summer to teach a class on international journalism to American students. [...]

Posted On : Jul, 21 2011 | Comments : 0

A Victory of Sorts for Journalism Ethics in the Former Yugos...

Serbia’s state-run television RTS apologized last week to the publics of the former Yugoslavia for serving as a propaganda tool of wartime Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic. This move is likely to be followed by apologies from [...]

Posted On : Jun, 15 2011 | Comments : 0

Eight win Arab Journalism Award

Dubai: Eight distinguished journalists were Wednesday awarded the prestigious Arab Journalism Award 2011 in the 10th edition of the Arab Media Forum. The winners were selected from 3,800 submissions in eight categories from across the reg [...]

Posted On : May, 19 2011 | Comments : 0

Reflections On Ethics of Journalism

There is no doubt that “Ethics of Mass Media and Society” is an important building block in the profession of journalism that introduces learners to making ethical decisions in the practice of Journalism. The gamut of ethical [...]

Posted On : Feb, 23 2011 | Comments : 0

Journalism or artistry?

In an astonishingly short period of time, journalism in Pakistan has gone from being the world of the lean and the deadpan to that of the glitterati. The hacks of the old days got along with salaries that were less than the lunch expense [...]

Posted On : Feb, 07 2011 | Comments : 0

Ethics in Journalism, Or the Lack There Of

Former University of Tennessee and current University of Southern California head coach Lane Kiffen tells the LA Times that money was never discussed during a brief flirtation between UT and the Newton family. Various media reports [...]

Posted On : Nov, 12 2010 | Comments : 0

The ethics of journalism

Journalism relies on public trust, and trust between individual journalists and their sources. Without trust, the Media Alliance's Code of Ethics reminds us, journalists do not fulfill their public responsibilities. Events of th [...]

Posted On : Jul, 16 2010 | Comments : 0

Journalism Ethics - Stanley McChrystal and Rolling Stone

When I was editor-in-chief of Spare Change News from 2003 to 2007, one of my reporters made a phone call that, in retrospect, proved to be quite interesting. But more on that soon. Our writer emeritus Je [...]

Posted On : Jul, 05 2010 | Comments : 0

Journalism, a challenging profession - TN Haokip

Six journalists of the state including the editor of Hueiyen Lanpao (English edition), Brozendra Ningomba were awarded the Manipur State Journalists' Award, 2008 in connection with the Information and Public Relations Day observance held at [...]

Posted On : Nov, 02 2009 | Comments : 0

Ethics shifting in journalism

Down is the new up. Nazi is the new black. Jon Stewart is the new Walter Cronkite. No, really. In a Time magazine poll this summer, 44 percent of Americans voted Stewart America’s best newsman. Yes, they voted a comedian who bre [...]

Posted On : Sep, 28 2009 | Comments : 0

New-age journalism may need to be reined in

It has been a hectic last few months for the Minnesota Vikings — mostly due to that guy who used to play in the state to the right of us. At the time of this writing, Brett Favre was still contemplating whether to join the Vikings as [...]