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“The model should be going into stories with compassion, heart, and humility.” A new coalition is building stronger bridges between journalists and communities affected by shootings.
Many journalists have turned to anonymity as a default method for minimizing harm to story subjects. But how do we balance our obligation to sources with our ethical imperative to tell the full story?
Ethics and Democracy | Ethics and Diversity
Top immigration journalists from The New Yorker, ProPublica, Documented, and The CITY discuss how a second Trump presidency will inform their reporting.
How to fight anticipatory compliance.
DECODED
Breaking down the ethics codes and guidelines shaping newsrooms across the industry.
Interviewing students is a fundamental part of Chalkbeat's mission as an education-focused nonprofit newsroom that reports extensively on K-12 policy and experience. But how can newsrooms work with underage sources ethically?
How to fight anticipatory compliance.
Ethics and Diversity | Everyday Ethics
“The model should be going into stories with compassion, heart, and humility.” A new coalition is building stronger bridges between journalists and communities affected by shootings.
Many journalists have turned to anonymity as a default method for minimizing harm to story subjects. But how do we balance our obligation to sources with our ethical imperative to tell the full story?
Ethics and Democracy | Ethics and Diversity
Top immigration journalists from The New Yorker, ProPublica, Documented, and The CITY discuss how a second Trump presidency will inform their reporting.
DECODED
Breaking down the ethics codes and guidelines shaping newsrooms across the industry.
Interviewing students is a fundamental part of Chalkbeat's mission as an education-focused nonprofit newsroom that reports extensively on K-12 policy and experience. But how can newsrooms work with underage sources ethically?
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How to fight anticipatory compliance.
Interviewing students is a fundamental part of Chalkbeat's mission as an education-focused nonprofit newsroom that reports extensively on K-12 policy and experience. But how can newsrooms work with underage sources ethically?
Ethics and Diversity | Everyday Ethics
“The model should be going into stories with compassion, heart, and humility.” A new coalition is building stronger bridges between journalists and communities affected by shootings.
Looking beyond a mess at the Washington Post to more general rules
Many journalists have turned to anonymity as a default method for minimizing harm to story subjects. But how do we balance our obligation to sources with our ethical imperative to tell the full story?
Journalist Adam Penenberg is looking for ways to bring ethics codes to life — or at least, artificial life.
Ethics and Democracy | Ethics and Diversity
Top immigration journalists from The New Yorker, ProPublica, Documented, and The CITY discuss how a second Trump presidency will inform their reporting.
In 1976, the first year of that annual Gallup poll showing this year’s dreadful erosion in media trust, pollsters found that 72% of those polled had “a great deal/fair amount” of trust in the press. This year a mere 31% felt that way. As erosion in public trust of media becomes an avalanche, Pulitzer Prize finalist Ken Wells suggests a return to the agnostic newsroom.