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Ethics and Democracy | Everyday Ethics
Received Hacked Info? Now What? Five Takeaways About How to Ethically Navigate Reporting of Hacked Materials
In the summer of 2024, reporters from several publications received emails offering access to internal Trump presidential campaign documents, including a dossier that was prepared to identify potential vulnerabilities of J.D. Vance before he was selected as Trump’s running mate. What’s a journalist to do? Under what circumstances, if any, is it ethical for journalists to publish information from hacked files, especially during an election race, and to what extent are the hackers’ motivations relevant to the question?
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.
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.