Areas of Focus
Everyday Ethics
![Dick Tofel, Media Consultant and Former President of ProPublica.](https://ethicsandjournalism.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Richard-Tofel-80x80.webp)
On Hacked Documents, Journalism and the Motives of Sources
Highlighting a weakness in much of day-to-day coverage.
![Dr. Jon LaPook on CBS 60 Minutes](https://ethicsandjournalism.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Jon-LaPook-interview-80x80.jpg)
DC Says Gun Violence is a Public Health Crisis. Will newsrooms cover it like one? Ask Dr. Jon LaPook.
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.
![Panelists at an Ethics & Journalism Initiative event in 2023.](https://ethicsandjournalism.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/IMG_8767-80x80.jpeg)
Fall Event Lineup to Feature Sessions on Elections, Medical Ethics, Immigration
Guests to include CBS News medical correspondent Jon LaPook and Documented co-founder Mazin Sidahmed.
Ethics and Technology
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NYT’s Seward Shares Missteps and Potential
Of AI Use in Newsrooms
Zach Seward, the editorial director of AI initiatives at The New York Times, shared what's working and what's not in AI, as well as what we can learn from both, in a talk he gave to an audience of NYU students, alumni, faculty and professional journalists at NYU's Ethics & Journalism Initiative.
Many News Sites Are Blocking AI Web Crawlers, New Research Shows
New research by the Reuters Institute finds that news organizations in the U.S. are blocking artificial intelligence companies from copying the news sites' online content, a process known as crawling or scraping that is used to train AI applications.
Journalism Prize Groups Mull How Use of AI Should Influence Their Decisions
The increasing use of artificial intelligence to research or create journalism is prompting organizations that sponsor journalism prizes to examine how AI may affect submissions and the awarding of prizes, according to a NiemanLab report prepared by journalist Alex Perry.
Ethics and Democracy
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Was It Unethical Not to Cover Biden’s Apparent Decline?
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.
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Panel Tackles Challenges Of Covering Elections Amid Disinformation
A group of seasoned politics journalists and a leading press critic kicked off the first of two panels to launch the Ethics & Journalism Initiative at NYU's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute on Nov. 29. Moderated by EJI director Stephen J. Adler, the panel discussed how to cover politics ethically and robustly in an age of polarization and disinformation. You'll find the EJI Takeaways from the panel and a link to a video in this post.