Guest Column: Being Transparent With Sources Is Key to Building Trust
Guest columnist Dan Levine, a Reuters investigative reporter, explains the importance of sharing with sources how the editorial process works to earn their trust, minimize their exposure and protect their safety.
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.
The Markup’s Syed Leads Workshop About BI Coverage and Ackman
Nabiha Syed, chief executive of The Markup and a media lawyer, led an Ethics & Journalism workshop for students in February through a case study focused on privacy, news judgment, and the role of corporate ownership in overseeing editorial decisions.
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.
Ben Smith: Parachuting Reporters Into Hot Spots, Relying on Amateur Newsgathering Is Fraught
In a recent Semafor column, Ben Smith, editor-in-chief of the site and former media columnist at the New York Times, lays out the potential shortfalls of the historic practice in American journalism of parachuting in senior reporters to hot spots around the globe who then rely on fixers, stringers, assistants, contractors and local journalists for […]
Ethical Breach By Boston Globe Reporter Puts Newsroom’s Decision to Publish in Spotlight
The Boston Globe and reporter Kevin Cullen are facing scrutiny for a breach of journalistic ethics by Cullen as he reported a story about a Connecticut woman’s journey to die by assisted suicide, as well as for the Globe’s decision to publish the story after they learned of his ethical breach. The article, published Jan. […]
Letter From Director Stephen J. Adler
Welcome to ethicsandjournalism.org, the website of NYU’s new Ethics & Journalism Initiative. Here you’ll find newsroom ethics codes, AI guidelines, a compendium of best practices, topical discussions, and the most useful ethics articles and papers that we can produce or collect.
Indian Ruling Against Reuters Is Blow to Free Speech, POLITICO Writes
An Indian judge’s ruling has set back free speech on the internet by ordering news agency Reuters to remove global web access to a November 2023 cybersecurity investigation, according to an in-depth report by POLITICO Magazine’s Michael Schaffer, a senior editor and columnist.
Exploring the Potential Risks and Rewards of Using AI in Newsrooms
Journalists from Reuters and the AP joined an NYU assistant professor and moderator Gina Chua, executive editor at Semafor, to discuss how to get the most value from AI while minimizing the risks of deep fakes and lost trust from the public. The Nov. 29 event for NYU students, faculty, journalists and guests was the second panel of the evening as part of the launch of the Ethics & Journalism Initiative. You'll find the EJI Takeaways from the panel and a link to a video in this post.