[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 …
Engagement and Serving the Republic
In a time of Trump, how should journalists serve the public? Should they join the protests? Become a partisan, opposition press? Or stick to neutrally reporting the facts? In this three-part series, media ethicist Stephen …
Engagement and Pragmatic Objectivity
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]In a time of Trump, how should journalists serve the public? Should they join the protests? Become a partisan, opposition press? Or stick to neutrally reporting the facts? In this three-part series, media ethicist Stephen …
How to Practice Democratically Engaged Journalism
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]In a time of Trump, how should journalists serve the public? Should they join the protests? Become a partisan, opposition press? Or stick to neutrally reporting the facts? In this three-part series, media ethicist Stephen …