Everyday Ethics

Articles

Dick Tofel, Media Consultant and Former President of ProPublica.

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

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.

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.

Resources

Washington Square park in the early fall from above

NYU Journalism Ethics Handbook

NYU's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute Ethics Handbook for Students