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Teaching students to cover the stories that hit close to home

Posted on February 8, 2018

[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 …

Posted in Feature articles, Featured News, Features, Uncategorized

How and why Twitter corrections happen

Posted on January 22, 2018

[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 …

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Interviewing LaVar Ball (sometimes) is an ethical imperative

Posted on January 13, 2018

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 …

Posted in Feature articles, Featured News, Features, Uncategorized

Kaiser reflects on what he’s learned about journalism ethics

Posted on November 20, 2017

Marty Kaiser has spent a lot of time in newsrooms.   His interest in journalism began as a child and he  chased it through college before joining the Chicago Sun-Times and the Baltimore Sun.   …

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Reconsidering objective journalism without becoming partisan

Posted on November 6, 2017

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Mark Sappenfield, editor at the The Christian Science Monitor, and Christa Case Bryant, the Monitor’s heartland correspondent, said journalists need to reconsider objectivity as a goal of journalism without falling into partisan journalism. “The goal …

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Rethinking objectivity in progressive communities: A Q&A with Sue Robinson

Posted on October 18, 2017

[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 …

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Four members join advisory board

Posted on October 16, 2017

[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 …

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Making the call: Determining when to call a political statement a lie

Posted on October 12, 2017

[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 …

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Technology complicates ethics of natural disaster reporting

Posted on October 11, 2017

More than a decade after covering Hurricane Katrina for The (New Orleans) Times-Picayune, John Pope, a member of the team that won two Pultizer Prizes, remembers how live-blogging, a relatively new media technology at the …

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Stop scrambling for ‘why,’ and stop calling them ‘shooters’

Posted on October 9, 2017

By Katherine Reed Another week, another mass shooting in America. In addition to being heartsick, angry and frustrated, I am, as usual, distressed by the way mass shootings are reported in the breaking news cycle. …

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