Press Council adds 3 appendices to promote ethical journalism
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Re-thinking why we believe in free expression
For the past two weeks or more, a fierce debate has raged about the publishing of the offensive video and French magazine cartoons about Mohammed. Predictably, the debate has been structured around two positions – a strong call for free expression (offensive or not) versus calls for protection against offensive material.
Advancing Editorial Integrity in Public Media
The digital age is fundamentally transforming how journalists create news and finance their projects. Fundamental change creates new problems but also new opportunities. Amid the media revolution, it is crucial for news organizations to maintain the public trust.
Filipino bloggers urged to follow journalists’ code of ethics
Speakers at iBlog Philippine Blogging Summit urge self-regulation to avoid gov’t regulation
Ward joins Canadian panel on ethics in digital media
How do organizations worldwide shape social media policies? What ethics should prevail for live-blogging/Tweeting? CJE director Stephen Ward travels to Canada for a panel on current ethical dilemmas in the digital environment.
Another successful journalism ethics conference
A look back at our 2012 conference
Debate surrounds NYTimes’s David Carr and the Curator’s code of ethics
Proposed guidelines for aggregation and blogging: a good idea or the “blog police”?
Prof. Ward joins National Academy of Sciences panel
Stephen Ward is one of 18 scholars invited to join a two-year study by the National Academy of Sciences. The committee’s task is to study the “Ethical and Societal Implications of Advances in Militarily Significant Technologies …
Conference registration is now closed. Check back for the live stream of “Ethics & Elections: Media, Money and Power in 2012”
In an age of partisan journalism and ‘combat’ politics, is the idea of media helping citizens make informed electoral choices a quaint but outdated notion? Is the ideal of democratic journalism – a journalism that promotes deliberative democracy through accurate reporting and informed analysis — just a reassuring myth?
The fourth journalism ethics conference, to be staged by the Center for Journalism Ethics (CJE) at the beautiful, new Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery, examines political campaigning and electoral reporting today, and considers its impact on democracy.
Ethical reporting on rape? Struggles in Indonesia
Alliance of Indonesian Journalists monitors coverage of rape cases, finds careless reporting, publication of victim identities.