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Journalists’ Code of Ethics: Time for an update?
Take Our Poll During a Twitter chat Thursday about journalism ethics in social media, I tweeted that the Society of Professional Journalists Code of Ethics could stand an update. Scott Leadingham,...
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Journalism ethics guidance from a great teacher, Phil Record
I share a lot of new-school views of journalism and journalism ethics in this blog. Today I want to share some old-school advice by a friend whose teaching of ethics transcended generations. In the...
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Join tonight’s #spjchat about updating journalism code of ethics
Update: The chat is finished. If you didn’t join us, read the replay below, or the Storify summary. I am pleased that my blog post last November, calling for an update of the Society of Professional...
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Journalist’s job is like a witness: Tell the whole truth and nothing but
A while back Scott Leadingham of the Society of Professional Journalists asked me to contribute to a feature asking journalists for our personal codes of ethics. He posted my reply at the SPJ Works...
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Journalism ethics conversation needs one more thing: Detailed situational advice
Someone should compile detailed ethical guidance for journalists in the difficult decisions we face in doing our jobs today. The journalism conversation about ethics has been more robust this year than...
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SPJ’s ethics code ‘update’ proposal: just a few tweaks
Ethics codes should guide journalists in the world where we live and work, not the world where we wish we worked. At a discussion at the Excellence in Journalism conference last August, several members...
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More thoughts on SPJ Code of Ethics revisions: minimizing harm, independence,...
This continues my analysis of a draft of a revision to Society of Professional Journalists Code of Ethics. I commented Friday on the changes to the “Seek Truth” section of the code. Here I’ll address...
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Slides and links for SPJ webinar on enterprise stories
I led a webinar today on digital approaches to enterprise stories. It mentioned these links as advice and examples: Questions to help newsrooms unbolt enterprise reporting from the ‘Sunday story’ Five...
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Links and slides for Excellence in Journalism ethics discussion
Update: The final draft of the code update was revised again yesterday. I like what I’ve heard about the changes, but I haven’t analyzed it yet. I will be leading a session at the Excellence in...
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New SPJ Code of Ethics: an improvement but a disappointment
The Society of Professional Journalists adopted a new Code of Ethics Saturday at its meeting in Nashville. I am pleased that SPJ updated a code that I described four years ago as profoundly outdated....
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Slides and links from SPJ Madison workshop
I was a long-distance participant in a workshop today for the Madison, Wis., chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. My first session, about going digital-first in your newsroom, drew...
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Journalism ethics were never timeless
People who think journalism ethics principles are timeless have short memories. Or no knowledge of journalism history. When I failed last year to persuade the Society of Professional Journalists to...
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What is your advice for job-hunting journalists?
I led a webinar Wednesday for the Society of Professional Journalists on job-hunting for journalists (but non-journos are welcome, too): FREE SPJ webinar: Job hunting for journalists, 7/29, with...
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ONA project provides helpful, detailed ethics advice
In late 2013 I called for detailed guidance for journalists on various ethics issues. I’m pleased to have had a role in answering that call through the Online News Association’s Build Your Own Ethics...
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Slides and links on mass communication codes of ethics
#ethicssymposium “our sense of right and wrong changes in other parts of life” so why not journo? @stevebuttry asks pic.twitter.com/cPZpe1jzNV — Phil Tenser (@pstenser) March 14, 2014 I taught a class...
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SPJ webinar, ‘Leading Change in Your Organization’
Today I am leading a webinar for the Society of Professional Journalists, “Leading Change in Your Organization.” I will repeat points I made in my 2014 posts about Project Unbolt. I’ll also cover...
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Slides and links for SPJ webinar on using unnamed sources
I presented a webinar Wednesday for the Society of Professional Journalists on using (and reducing the use of unnamed sources). I discussed points made in previous posts about using unnamed sources,...
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SPJ ethics chair misstates arguments for not naming mass killers
We can’t have a reasonable debate about media coverage of mass killers if people fail to understand the opposing arguments. Andrew Seaman’s post this week for the SPC Ethics Committee Blog misstates...
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