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Verify Social Media Virus News: People spread hoaxes thinking they’re sharing valuable information with friends and family, writes Jessica Roy. Verify social media accounts, sites and the information, she writes. Visit the Ethics AdviceLine blog for more.

Why reporters should cover Trump: The president abuses journalists at his daily briefings. Jay Rosen gives 13 reasons they should “stick around for that,” even though the president misinforms the nation.   Visit the Ethics AdviceLine blog for more.

Masking the coronavirus: Seeing is believing, writes Al Tompkins, but “hospitals are blocking  journalists from documenting what it’s like inside their walls….” Imagery from inside hospitals is needed, though “no reasonable person would suggest journalists should sneak into hospitals to grab photos.”   Visit the Ethics AdviceLine blog for […]

Pandemic journalism: “My hope is that journalism, as an industry, will stop viewing itself as an external body meant to serve the public and instead begin to see itself as a member of the public,” writes Alexandra Neason.   Visit the Ethics AdviceLine blog for more.

  By Casey Bukro Ethics AdviceLine for Journalists Back in 1972, a Harris poll found that only 18 percent of the public had confidence in the print media; television ranked lower. Garbage collectors scored higher in public confidence. As a reporter for the Chicago Tribune at the time, I thought […]

  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 […]