[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Drones aren’t just for large newsrooms. Brittany Schmidt, journalist and reporter for WBAY-TV in Green Bay, said drones are especially important for small and mid-size news markets. “Instead of talking about the remodeling of …
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Keeping journalists safe abroad is about ethics
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_video link=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLa8dp-Jh5s”][vc_column_text]Too many young journalists go into high-risk areas without proper safety training, without identifying mentors and without a true plan of what they’re going to do when they arrive, said Bruce Shapiro, director of …
Reporting on Nassar: It takes a toll
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Read Part 2: Gould’s advice to other journalism instructors, “Teaching students to cover stories that hit close to home.” It takes a toll. At first, you try to ignore it. …
Teaching students to cover the stories that hit close to home
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator][vc_column_text] Editor’s note: This compilation of teaching tips is a companion piece to the author’s essay on what it was like to teach student journalists to cover events that affected the campus community deeply. Read …
How and why Twitter corrections happen
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] With just a couple clicks, an erroneous tweet can evaporate. If you spell a restaurant’s name wrong or quote a song lyric incorrectly on your personal account, it’s easy to quickly wash that bad …
Interviewing LaVar Ball (sometimes) is an ethical imperative
Have the Los Angeles Lakers players stopped responding to their head coach? LaVar Ball, the outspoken father of the team’s rookie point guard, thinks so. Last weekend, he told an ESPN reporter that Lakers Head …
Rethinking objectivity in progressive communities: A Q&A with Sue Robinson
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Sue Robinson has navigated media ethics in a couple of different ways. First, as a reporter for more than a decade and now as a UW-Madison journalism professor researching how journalists use new communication …
Four members join advisory board
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]MADISON, Wisconsin – Four members, three alumni from the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, have joined the advisory board of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Journalism Ethics. Since its founding nine years ago, the …
Making the call: Determining when to call a political statement a lie
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Tom Beaumont is a national political reporter at the Associated Press. Beaumont answered some questions by phone about the ethical issues in reporting in an ever-changing, fast-paced news cycle. This interview was edited for clarity …
Weekly press must help extricate readers from ‘silos of ideology’
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]This column appeared April newsletter of the International Society of Weekly Newspaper Editors. If you haven’t read Melissa Hale-Spencer’s article in the spring issue of Grassroots Editor, take a look at it, especially the last …