[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]In a time of Trump, how should journalists serve the public? Should they join the protests? Become a partisan, opposition press? Or stick to neutrally reporting the facts? In this three-part series, media ethicist Stephen …
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Roundtable: Truth, Trump and journalism
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]We asked several media experts to weigh in on some of the ethical dilemmas facing journalists as they report on the Trump administration. From dealing with dishonest sources to using the term “lie” to describe falsehoods, …
Drone Journalism Training Coming to Ethics Center
The Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is partnering with the Poynter Institute, Google News Lab, DJI Drones, the Drone Journalism Lab at the University of Nebraska, and National Press Photographers Association …
Recap: Ethics and Election 2016
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]More than 170 people joined us at the Overture Center on Dec. 8, 2016 to discuss journalism ethics and the 2016 election with The Atlantic’s Molly Ball, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s Craig Gilbert and UW-Madison School of …
Q & A with Chris Wells: Trump as a Media Mastermind
Chris Wells is an associate professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His latest work, published in Political Communication, examines the many strategies Donald Trump used to generate news coverage. …
Editing Trump’s words
Last Friday, The Washington Post published video footage from 2005 of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump making crude remarks about his seemingly unwelcome advances on women. The reporting following the video’s publication prompted Poynter to take …
Ethics and Elections Event December 8
Please join the Center for Journalism Ethics December 8 for a panel — “Journalism Ethics & Election 2016” — at 6:30 p.m. at the Overture Center in Madison. We will explore the role of political …
Disrupting journalism ethics: Going ‘radical’
To speak of journalism ethics today is to speak in the future and normative tense. What should journalism ethics look like, in the not too distant future, if it is to be an adequate guide …
Kathleen Culver to head Center
With Robert Drechsel’s retirement after three years as the director of the Center for Journalism Ethics, Kathleen Culver will take the helm. To read more about the transition, read Friday’s announcement from the University of …
Join us for live web streaming during the conference
To find the live stream, choose the current panel from the schedule below. 8:50 Opening remarks 9 Keynote address (not available for live streaming) Nikole Hannah-Jones New York Times Magazine 10 Panel — Representing Race: Language, …