Advancing ethical journalistic practices in the public interest.
The stakes are high for reporters on the migrant beat. To provide guidance and insight, we asked a veteran immigration reporter about building trust, fielding requests for help, navigating Trump administration changes to enforcement, reader fatigue, and more.
For student journalists, covering campus news for decades is increasingly likely to raise complicated ethical and legal questions—from how to stay safe when faced with law enforcement and possible disciplinary action, to legal rights student journalists have when covering campus protests.
New guidance from the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics lays out three principles for ethical headline writing and offers guidance for newsrooms that want to achieve them.
This startup nonprofit, which was born out of the 2020 George Floyd protests, embraces community advocacy in the tradition of what it calls “the radical Black press.”
Reporters and readers should be skeptical of unnamed “insiders.”
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As editors debate whether to scrub names and identifying features from past and future articles, we’re revisiting our guidance on when – and how – to work with anonymous sources.
DECODED
Breaking down the ethics codes and guidelines shaping newsrooms across the industry.
The nonprofit’s co-founder says its resources page is service journalism for the communities Documented covers.
Reporters and readers should be skeptical of unnamed “insiders.”
Resource of the Week:
As editors debate whether to scrub names and identifying features from past and future articles, we’re revisiting our guidance on when – and how – to work with anonymous sources.
The stakes are high for reporters on the migrant beat. To provide guidance and insight, we asked a veteran immigration reporter about building trust, fielding requests for help, navigating Trump administration changes to enforcement, reader fatigue, and more.
For student journalists, covering campus news for decades is increasingly likely to raise complicated ethical and legal questions—from how to stay safe when faced with law enforcement and possible disciplinary action, to legal rights student journalists have when covering campus protests.
New guidance from the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics lays out three principles for ethical headline writing and offers guidance for newsrooms that want to achieve them.
This startup nonprofit, which was born out of the 2020 George Floyd protests, embraces community advocacy in the tradition of what it calls “the radical Black press.”
DECODED
Breaking down the ethics codes and guidelines shaping newsrooms across the industry.
The nonprofit’s co-founder says its resources page is service journalism for the communities Documented covers.
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The stakes are high for reporters on the migrant beat. To provide guidance and insight, we asked a veteran immigration reporter about building trust, fielding requests for help, navigating Trump administration changes to enforcement, reader fatigue, and more.
New guidance from the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics lays out three principles for ethical headline writing and offers guidance for newsrooms that want to achieve them.
Reporters and readers should be skeptical of unnamed “insiders.”
For student journalists, covering campus news for decades is increasingly likely to raise complicated ethical and legal questions—from how to stay safe when faced with law enforcement and possible disciplinary action, to legal rights student journalists have when covering campus protests.
The nonprofit’s co-founder says its resources page is service journalism for the communities Documented covers.
This startup nonprofit, which was born out of the 2020 George Floyd protests, embraces community advocacy in the tradition of what it calls “the radical Black press.”
Including the need to listen to customers and adopt more flexible practices.
Ethics and Journalism Initiative Director Stephen J. Adler on why “takedowns” pose serious risks to free speech and the historical record and are unlikely to offer actual protection.
At THE CITY, journalists can participate in civic life – but only if the activity doesn’t conflict with their beats.
Too many stories about the end of policies promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion lack critical context about why DEI programs came to be and what they’ve accomplished.
