Critics have long accused objective reporters of hiding behind facts to avoid taking a stand on crucial issues.
How little these people know about the courage it takes for journalists to be objective. How little they know about what it takes to stand behind a commitment to telling the truth, and to stating a fact as a fact.
Should we close journalism schools?
Canadian journalist Alan Bass argues that journalists who worry about the future of newspapers are asking the wrong question. Rather than ask, ‘How can we save newspapers?’ we should ask, ‘How can we save journalism?’ …
Surviving the Media Carnage Newspapers closing. Journalists let go. Old economic models to support journalism are imploding amid a media revolution. Two veteran journalists — an American and a Canadian — view the carnage and …
Newspapers in peril, journalists laid off, ethical standards challenged, and the economic basis of mainstream journalism collapsing.
This is no time for critics of “mainstream media” to be triumphal.
The language of journalism ethics today is like bad Irish stew – a mishmash of different and conflicting ideas, rules, and practices.
Ethical mumbo-jumbo.
Doing ethics in journalism has never been easy.
Across the history of modern journalism, journalists have struggled against economic and political powers to be independent and responsible public communicators.
Journalism educators need to actively respond to these trends by developing a clear conception of the distinct nature and overriding social value of journalism in a digital democracy.
What the Turkish and international public know about headscarves is as divided as the debate on lifting the ban. Not long after winning a landslide reelection victory last July, the mildly pro-Islamic Prime Minister of …
In the last of a four part series on special topics in journalism ethics, journalismethics.ca’s international reporting team analyzes the issues of nation building and the public interest in communities as diverse as South Africa …