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Ethics and Diversity | Everyday Ethics
Donald Trump's and J.D. Vance's recent comments about Haitian immigrants present a familiar challenge to journalists: how to report on misinformation without amplifying it.
Ethics and Democracy | Everyday Ethics
In the summer of 2024, reporters from several publications received emails offering access to internal Trump presidential campaign documents, including a dossier that was prepared to identify potential vulnerabilities of J.D. Vance before he was selected as Trump’s running mate. What’s a journalist to do? Under what circumstances, if any, is it ethical for journalists to publish information from hacked files, especially during an election race, and to what extent are the hackers’ motivations relevant to the question?
The Peter F. Collier Award for Ethics in Journalism, to be granted annually with prizes up to $15,000, will recognize student and local journalists, as well as reporters who have had national or international impact. The award will be administered by the Carter Journalism Institute’s Ethics & Journalism Initiative.
Interested in applying for the Collier Award? Learn more about our requirements for submission, and what our judges are looking for.
DECODED
Breaking down the ethics codes and guidelines shaping newsrooms across the industry.
For Stephanie Jenkins, establishing AI best practices for documentary film began as a game of catch-up, after she discovered last year that producers in the field had already begun to experiment with deploying generative AI to create false historical footage, images, and artifacts, with little or no disclosure or guardrails. Last month, she and other industry veterans released a new Best Practices guide for Use of Generative AI in Documentaries through the newly-formed Archival Producers Alliance (APA). In this edition of Decoded, Managing Editor Ryan Howzell sat down with Jenkins and fellow APA Co-Director Rachel Antell to discuss the APA's new guide and what multimedia journalists and producers stand to learn from it.
The Peter F. Collier Award for Ethics in Journalism, to be granted annually with prizes up to $15,000, will recognize student and local journalists, as well as reporters who have had national or international impact. The award will be administered by the Carter Journalism Institute’s Ethics & Journalism Initiative.
Interested in applying for the Collier Award? Learn more about our requirements for submission, and what our judges are looking for.
Ethics and Diversity | Everyday Ethics
Donald Trump's and J.D. Vance's recent comments about Haitian immigrants present a familiar challenge to journalists: how to report on misinformation without amplifying it.
Ethics and Democracy | Everyday Ethics
In the summer of 2024, reporters from several publications received emails offering access to internal Trump presidential campaign documents, including a dossier that was prepared to identify potential vulnerabilities of J.D. Vance before he was selected as Trump’s running mate. What’s a journalist to do? Under what circumstances, if any, is it ethical for journalists to publish information from hacked files, especially during an election race, and to what extent are the hackers’ motivations relevant to the question?
DECODED
Breaking down the ethics codes and guidelines shaping newsrooms across the industry.
For Stephanie Jenkins, establishing AI best practices for documentary film began as a game of catch-up, after she discovered last year that producers in the field had already begun to experiment with deploying generative AI to create false historical footage, images, and artifacts, with little or no disclosure or guardrails. Last month, she and other industry veterans released a new Best Practices guide for Use of Generative AI in Documentaries through the newly-formed Archival Producers Alliance (APA). In this edition of Decoded, Managing Editor Ryan Howzell sat down with Jenkins and fellow APA Co-Director Rachel Antell to discuss the APA's new guide and what multimedia journalists and producers stand to learn from it.
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October 18, 2024
6:00-8:00pm
Register here “If it bleeds, it leads.” From the rise of true-crime podcasts to the rampant publication of crime blotters, mugshot galleries, and real-time police footage, sensationalized coverage of crime and policing is inescapable. In 2024, the Pew Research Center found local news coverage to be a key contributing factor to the perception among most […]
October 29, 2024
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Reporting on immigration involves complex ethical issues – about protecting the privacy and safety of one’s sources, reporting across language and cultural divides, addressing the power gulf between reporters and their subjects, and considering legal risks to immigrants and their families, among others. Join us Oct. 29 for a Lunch & Learn session led by Mazin Sidahmed, co-executive director at Documented, an independent, non-profit newsroom dedicated to reporting with and for immigrant communities in New York City.
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Ethical reporting on diverse communities and building ethical structures within newsrooms.
Ethics, journalism and the democratic process in an increasingly polarized world.
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For Stephanie Jenkins, establishing AI best practices for documentary film began as a game of catch-up, after she discovered last year that producers in the field had already begun to experiment with deploying generative AI to create false historical footage, images, and artifacts, with little or no disclosure or guardrails. Last month, she and other industry veterans released a new Best Practices guide for Use of Generative AI in Documentaries through the newly-formed Archival Producers Alliance (APA). In this edition of Decoded, Managing Editor Ryan Howzell sat down with Jenkins and fellow APA Co-Director Rachel Antell to discuss the APA's new guide and what multimedia journalists and producers stand to learn from it.
With schools back in session, it’s a great time to take a look at Chalkbeat’s Code of Ethics and see what the education-focused nonprofit newsroom can teach journalists – in and out of schools – about working with minors and about accountability.
Ethics and Democracy | Everyday Ethics
In the summer of 2024, reporters from several publications received emails offering access to internal Trump presidential campaign documents, including a dossier that was prepared to identify potential vulnerabilities of J.D. Vance before he was selected as Trump’s running mate. What’s a journalist to do? Under what circumstances, if any, is it ethical for journalists to publish information from hacked files, especially during an election race, and to what extent are the hackers’ motivations relevant to the question?
Ethics and Diversity | Everyday Ethics
Donald Trump's and J.D. Vance's recent comments about Haitian immigrants present a familiar challenge to journalists: how to report on misinformation without amplifying it.
In the United States, newsrooms’ adoption of generative AI has fueled concerns that real-life journalists may be pushed to the background.
Ethics and Diversity | Everyday Ethics
When I started in journalism in the mid-1980s I was given a diktat. Never share a quote in advance with an interview subject. I never did.
This article was originally published on The Markup, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates how powerful institutions are using technology to change our society. Read the original article on their website. By: Tomas Apodaca Hello, readers! I’m Tomas Apodaca, a journalism engineer at The Markup and CalMatters. It’s my job to write software and analyze data […]
Highlighting a weakness in much of day-to-day coverage.
Story selection isn’t covered prominently in most newsroom ethics codes, but what we do or don’t choose to publish is a matter of journalistic ethics as much as anything else. Days after the Democratic National Convention, Ethics & Journalism Initiative Director Steve Adler describes the press’s reluctance to cover President Biden’s apparent decline before the June 27 debate as a significant ethical failure.
While this health-centric framing may have been new for Washington, it’s an approach some medical journalists like CBS News’s Chief Medical Correspondent Jon LaPook have embraced for years.
