[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]One of the researchers of a study that finds Republicans and supporters of President Donald Trump have far more negative attitudes toward the press than Democrats and Trump opponents, doubts that incremental changes in news …
Local markets are adopting drones, and facing ethical issues
[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 …
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 …
Kaiser reflects on what he’s learned about journalism ethics
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. …
Reconsidering objective journalism without becoming partisan
[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 …
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 …