[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Al Tompkins is a senior faculty member at the Poynter Institute and author of “Aim for the Heart: A Guide for TV Producers and Reporters.” We talked to Tompkins about the role of journalists in today’s non-stop, fast-paced media …
Roundtable: Truth, Trump and journalism
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]We asked several media experts to weigh in on some of the ethical dilemmas facing journalists as they report on the Trump administration. From dealing with dishonest sources to using the term “lie” to describe falsehoods, …
Drone Journalism Training Coming to Ethics Center
The Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is partnering with the Poynter Institute, Google News Lab, DJI Drones, the Drone Journalism Lab at the University of Nebraska, and National Press Photographers Association …
Transparency and boldness: Q&A with Jill Geisler
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”8210″ style=”vc_box_shadow_3d”][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″][vc_column_text] “The new year demands extraordinary newsroom management skills andstrategies as an unorthodox, media-bashing president takes office. The Trump administration will challenge norms of engagement with both the public and the …
Religion, politics and Trump’s inauguration
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]In exploring the political fractures of the United States at the moment of Donald Trump’s inauguration, one of the challenges for journalists is to understand the religious fractures that are part of today’s divisions. Understanding …
Duty of care: Newsrooms must address psychological trauma
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]As 2016 draws to a close, organizations like the Committee to Protect Journalists are preparing their final tallies of the number of journalists killed over the past year. The CPJ has provided systematic data on …
Recap: Ethics and Election 2016
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]More than 170 people joined us at the Overture Center on Dec. 8, 2016 to discuss journalism ethics and the 2016 election with The Atlantic’s Molly Ball, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s Craig Gilbert and UW-Madison School of …
Three duties in a time of Trump
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]In the turmoil of a Trump election victory, and the dawn of a robust right-wing American government, it is time to do journalism ethics with utmost seriousness. Journalism ethics is not a set of formal …
NPR’s experiment with live fact-checking
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]It took a team of about 30 NPR reporters and editors to annotate live transcripts of the 2016 presidential debates, according to Amita Kelly, a reporter on NPR’s politics team. The roster included journalists from politics, …
Q & A with Chris Wells: Trump as a Media Mastermind
Chris Wells is an associate professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His latest work, published in Political Communication, examines the many strategies Donald Trump used to generate news coverage. …