Dr. Ward discusses the hazards of our urge to put everything online. Scroll to p. 21 of this issue of Media magazine, published by the Canadian Association of Journalists:
Don’t base free press arguments on Assange
As I have been warning, we need to separate our support for publishing the cable secrets from our support for one person, Julian Assange. This doesn’t mean that we support government attempts to bring him …
Conflict-reporting workshop in Nigeria
Careful reporting seen as key to reducing conflict and holding credible elections in 2011.
Reporter suspended over family interviews
Journalist for Xinhua News Agency reprimanded for using her own family in over 30 news stories.
Twitter in the court
Judge allows Tweeting at Assange hearing, but media law expert warns of potential ethical snags.
Assange and professionalism journalism will unravel
David Carr, columnist for the New York Times, repeats a warning I have sounded — that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has a strong activist agenda combined with a lack of concern for the consequences of publishing secrets …
The “worst people” on campus?
The Badger Herald, an independent student newspaper, ran an article Monday condemning University of Wisconsin students who bought tickets to the Rose Bowl and then scalped them for higher prices. The paper was rightly concerned …
“Let’s kill Julian Assange!” WikiLeaks and the power of patriotism
A narrow patriotism — the psychological equivalent of a knee jerk — is an under-recognized force in modern journalism ethics. It distorts our thinking about the role of journalism as soon as journalists offend national …
“Let’s kill Julian Assange!” WikiLeaks and the power of patriotism
A narrow patriotism — the psychological equivalent of a knee jerk — is an under-recognized force in modern journalism ethics. It distorts our thinking about the role of journalism as soon as journalists offend national …
Ethics lecture draws hundreds
Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Anthony Shadid spoke to an overflow crowd at UW-Madison on Dec. 2 for the center’s inaugural ethics lecture. Shadid, a New York Times correspondent in Baghdad and UW alumnus, spoke with passion and candor about “The Truths We Tell: Reporting on Faith, War and the Fate of Iraq.” Shadid’s lecture, the centerpiece of a two-day visit to campus, was organized by the Center for Journalism Ethics and the Lubar Institute for the Study of Abrahamic Religions. Many local journalists covered the event, including UW-Madison journalism students from Prof. Stephen Vaughn’s reporting course. The center is pleased to feature three of the students’ stories below.