When a report from a state nonprofit revealed a racial disparity in Dane County schools, journalists adopted the term “achievement gap” to describe the problem. But Rachelle Winkle-Wagner, a scholar in education policy, doesn’t think …
Nikole Hannah-Jones to address conference
Award-winning New York Times Magazine journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones will deliver the keynote address to open the 2016 Center for Journalism Ethics conference at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on April 29. This year’s conference focuses on …
Associated Press named winner of 2016 Anthony Shadid Award
The Associated Press has won the 2016 Anthony Shadid Award for Journalism Ethics for reporting that resulted in the freeing of 2,000 slave laborers used by the fishing industry in Southeast Asia. The award will …
Conference tomorrow: Find schedule here
Online registration for the conference is now closed. But, we will accept registration at the door. The registration desk will be near the doors of the Varsity Rooms of Union South’s second floor. The conference …
Anna Therese Day and the jailed journalists whose stories we never hear
The UW-Madison community is still recovering from the shock of UW alum Anna Therese Day’s recent arrest in Bahrain. Day and her crew were in Bahrain over the weekend, covering the anniversary of the Gulf …
Engaged journalists need to confront ethical questions
I’ll go ahead and admit it: In early December, as I finished drafting this “Redefining Engagement” series, I began wondering if I’d missed something big along the way. “I’m still uneasy about some of the …
Rewriting history: Anniversary stories, shared memory and minority voices
by Meagan Doll & Steven Wang, CJE fellows “What is often a winner is a story that the audience largely finds familiar with perhaps a palatable twist in it,” Mascall-Dare said. “What I found is …
Making 2016 the Year of Engaged Media Ethics
Last year was one of challenging questions for media in the airing of graphic video: from Fox News’ decision to air a brutal video of a pilot being burned alive by ISIS to a 60 Minutes …
Ethics in the News – Dec. 15
News media are raising questions about the mystery owners of one of their own. A division of Gatehouse Media sold the Las Vegas Review-Journal this week to News + Media Capital Group. The owners of …
Ethics in the news – Dec. 8
The group representing black journalists is in serious financial trouble, according to a Huffington Post story Monday. The National Association of Black Journalists is in such dire straights, it is considering using a Ford Foundation …