[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 …
Technology complicates ethics of natural disaster reporting
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 …
Stop scrambling for ‘why,’ and stop calling them ‘shooters’
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. …
Kim’s research might shine the light into the “dark” political advertisements
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Young Mie Kim, associate professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, founded Project DATA to study how political campaigns use digital media and data to reach an audience. Before Facebook, Twitter and …
The ethical decisions behind telling the story of heroin
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The Cincinnati Enquirer’s Seven Days project took an immersive dive into the heroin epidemic and increasing toll of overdoes. The sometimes graphic and often gripping reporting captured the national attention. Because the stories it told …
Avoid simple solutions to mass shootings
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The most difficult task that journalists and journalism educators face in the days ahead may be to recognize their own biases about guns and challenge their notions with facts. In the days ahead, politicians …
New drone journalism ethics policy emerges from Poynter workshops
This year, Poynter organized four workshops that trained more than 325 journalists and journalism educators how to safely and ethically fly drones. Almost a third of our graduates have passed the Federal Aviation Administration Part …
What you need to know about drones in j-schools
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Five years ago when I began researching the ethical implications of using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in journalism, a trusted mentor told me it might not be the best choice for a research agenda. After all, …
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 …
Recap: Truth, Trust and the Future of Journalism
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Truth, Trust and the Future of Journalism brought together more than 200 journalists, scholars, advocates and community members to discuss how we have gotten to historically low levels of trust in news media and how we …