Sex, Dating and Reporters

July 14, 2021 admin 0

albanianjournalism.com image By Casey Bukro Ethics AdviceLine for Journalists Journalism sometimes is described as a sexy job, but there are limits. The Ethics AdviceLine for Journalists got a call from a California editor who said his City Hall reporter was having an affair with the mayor. A Massachusetts reporter asked […]

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Television Panhandlers

July 8, 2021 admin 0

bahaiteachings.org image By Casey Bukro Ethics AdviceLine for Journalists The Ethics AdviceLine for Journalists in 2014 reported on a long tradition in Chicago television of highly paid anchors shamelessly asking for food or other freebies on-air. They should pay for this stuff like everyone else. Check your local television station […]

Using Borrowed Videos

June 29, 2021 admin 0

desktop-documentaries.com image By Casey Bukro Ethics AdviceLine for Journalists A Chicago television station used a YouTube video showing a group of minors taunting a suspect sitting in the back seat of a Chicago police car. The video apparently was taken with a phone camera. It was posted on YouTube and […]

Skipping the small stuff

June 17, 2021 admin 0

netia.com image By Casey Bukro Ethics AdviceLine for Journalists The Associated Press became the latest news organization to adopt a humanitarian policy aimed at fairness in the way it reports on people. AP will no longer name suspects in minor crime stories, writes John Daniszewski, the AP’s vice president for […]

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Foreign Ethics

May 27, 2021 admin 0

http://www.acu.org.uk image By Casey Bukro Ethics AdviceLine for Journalists The Ethics AdviceLine for Journalists gets inquiries from journalists all over the world about ethics quandaries. Here’s one: The caller is a writer for a motorcycling magazine in Spain, where he is based. He has an offer to join the World […]

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BBC Apologizes

May 21, 2021 admin 0

ABC57.com image By Casey Bukro Ethics AdviceLine for Journalists Twenty-five years later, the British Broadcasting Corporation apologizes that one of its reporters, Martin Bashir, used fake bank statements to get a sensational interview with Princess Diana. “It was a stupid thing to do and was an action I deeply regret,” […]

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Ranking Plagues

May 13, 2021 admin 0

surrey604.com image By Casey Bukro Ethics AdviceLine for Journalists It’s too early to tell where the current coronavirus-19 pandemic ranks among the world’s worst plagues. At this writing, global cases stood at 160.6 million and global deaths at 3.3 million. The United States led the world with 32,827,228 cases and […]

2020 Watchdog Award winner: ‘Left In the Dark’ by WBBM

May 14, 2021 admin 0

The winner of the Chicago Headline Club’s 2020 Watchdog Award is “Left In the Dark,” by Samah Assad, Christopher Hacker and Dave Savini at WBBM CBS 2. How the team at WBBM described the project: The CBS 2 investigative team had been reporting about the issue of wrongful police raids […]

These are the winners of the 2020 Peter Lisagor Awards

May 14, 2021 admin 0

Here are the winners of the 2020 Peter Lisagor Awards, representing some of the best journalism made across the Chicago region over the past year in more than 100 categories, including newspapers, magazines, television, radio and digital media. Entries were judged by an impartial SPJ chapter outside Illinois. Thank you […]

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Ideals for next century

May 6, 2021 admin 0

the guardian.com image By Casey Bukro Ethics AdviceLine for Journalists As The Guardian newspaper celebrates its 200th anniversary and looks forward to its next century, covid is seen as a rehearsal for climate breakdown. Editor-in-chief Katharine Viner offers five ideals to guide the Guardian to help create a better kind of […]