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  Bartman and the ball  —- NBCsports.com photo   By Casey Bukro Ethics AdviceLine for Journalists The coronavirus batted the 2020 major league baseball season into limbo, but stories about baseball never get old. Here’s one about the Chicago Cubs, a seriously maligned baseball fan and journalism ethics. Like many classic […]

“We need a journalism stimulus,” writes Craig Aaron, saying that journalism is too important to democracy to be left to the whims of the market.   Visit the Ethics AdviceLine blog for more.

Bailout’s impact on media: Much of America’s daily and weekly press can benefit from the new Small Business Administration program, writes Ken Doctor, from loans up to a million dollars. Visit the Ethics AdviceLine blog for more.

Better newspaper business model: “The time is now to make a painful but necessary shift,” writes Ben Smith. “Abandon most for-profit local newspapers, whose business model no longer works, and move as fast as possible to a national network of nimble new online newsrooms” to rescue journalists.   Visit […]

  By Casey Bukro Ethics AdviceLine for Journalists At a time of extreme urgency, public trust in all credible sources of information is vital to public safety. As the global coronavirus death toll rises, it’s clearly time to set aside petty disputes that divide or confuse us. Yet in the […]

  Breitbart.com photo “Every American has a role to play” in combatting the coronavirus menace, says the president. That includes journalists, although President Trump does not seem to recognize that. He excoriates them every chance he gets. NBC’s Peter Alexander asked him at a news conference: “What do you say […]

Climate journalism rage: Emily Atkin describes how she put passion into reporting on climate change. “In order to make an impact on climate journalism, I’ve learned, I need to turn my despair into rage,” she writes. “Only then can others feel the burning importance of the story.”   Visit […]

Journalism with tears: When  broadcasters‘ tears inundate us, their impact is lost, writes Savannah Jacobson. The crying reporter is a new genre of clickbait, she writes.   Visit the Ethics AdviceLine blog for more.

Crisis demands media collaboration: Working together is more efficient and conserves resources that “could be deployed in smarter ways that the public needs,” writes Dan Gillmore. Be calm, broad, precise, transparent, engaged and relentlessly useful, he writes.   Visit the Ethics AdviceLine blog for more.

Focusing on public health, not politics: The train wreck becomes the story, at the expense of informing the public or holding power to account, writes Maria Bustillo. MSNBC demonstrates an alternative, sober path away from outrage mania, she writes.   Visit the Ethics AdviceLine blog for more.