Everyday Ethics Resources
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Everyday Ethics
Journalistic ethical standards that form the profession’s foundation.
How Chalkbeat Protects The Students It Covers
Interviewing students is a fundamental part of Chalkbeat's mission as an education-focused nonprofit newsroom that reports extensively on K-12 policy and experience. But how can newsrooms work with underage sources ethically?
Ethics and Diversity | Everyday Ethics
Do No Harm: Covering Gun Violence with ‘Radical Empathy’
“The model should be going into stories with compassion, heart, and humility.” A new coalition is building stronger bridges between journalists and communities affected by shootings.
How Newsrooms Should Cover Themselves
Looking beyond a mess at the Washington Post to more general rules
Guest Column: A Retro Proposal to Restore The Public’s Trust in Media
In 1976, the first year of that annual Gallup poll showing this year’s dreadful erosion in media trust, pollsters found that 72% of those polled had “a great deal/fair amount” of trust in the press. This year a mere 31% felt that way. As erosion in public trust of media becomes an avalanche, Pulitzer Prize finalist Ken Wells suggests a return to the agnostic newsroom.
Event Takeaways: CBS News’s Dr. Jon LaPook on Ethics in Science, Health, and Medical Reporting
"Disinfecting" misinformation, offering context, navigating conflicts of interest, and more in our takeaways from our Ethics in Medical Reporting event with CBS News Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Jon LaPook.
My Student Asked: Is It Ethical to Share Common Experiences, Interests or Beliefs with a Source?
The other day, a student asked me whether, in interviewing a union official for a story, it was OK to tell the official that the student had been a union organizer a few years before entering journalism school. Would this be ethical, the student asked?
Ethics and Democracy | Everyday Ethics
Received Hacked Info? Now What? Five Takeaways About How to Ethically Navigate Reporting of Hacked Materials
Source scrutiny, foreign intervention, audience transparency and more in our takeaways from our September event with Semafor's Ben Smith, Columbia Journalism Review's Sewell Chan, and Kathleen Carroll, former executive editor of the Associated Press.
Ethics and Diversity | Everyday Ethics
Confronting Falsehoods Carries Risks for the Press. So Does Ignoring Them.
Donald Trump's and J.D. Vance's recent comments about Haitian immigrants present a familiar challenge to journalists: how to report on misinformation without amplifying it.
Ethics and Diversity | Everyday Ethics
Guest Column: Is An On-The-Record Interview a Sign of Journalistic Virtue? I’m Not So Sure.
When I started in journalism in the mid-1980s I was given a diktat. Never share a quote in advance with an interview subject. I never did.
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