![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.
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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.
![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.
![Collier Award Judges: Lynn Novick, Sewell Chan, Nancy Gibbs, Gina Chua, Dean Baquet, Kerry Smith, Lynette Clemetson, Stephen Solomon, and Paul Steiger.](https://ethicsandjournalism.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Collier-Award-Judges-1-80x80.png)
NYU Announces Launch Of Peter F. Collier Award For Ethics in Journalism
The Peter F. Collier Award for Ethics in Journalism, to be granted annually with prizes up to $15,000, will recognize student and local journalists, as well as reporters who have had national or international impact. The award will be administered by the Carter Journalism Institute’s Ethics & Journalism Initiative.
![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.
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. The goal is to help journalists, whether experienced or just starting out, to become […]
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Ryan Howzell, Managing Editor, Program Manager-Researcher
Ryan Howzell is a researcher and writer with a strong focus on free expression, equity, and First Amendment applications to press, labor, identity, and technology.