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http://www.gopusa.com image By Casey Bukro Ethics AdviceLine for Journalists. The Supreme court verdict to overturn Roe vs. Wade, the landmark ruling establishing a constitutional right to abortion, came almost two months after a leaked draft of the decision was first reported by Politico. The leak seemed as historic as the […]

http://www.emergencyphysicians.org image By Casey Bukro Ethics AdviceLine for Journalists One of the leading journalism ethics issues to emerge from the Uvalde, Texas, school shooting is whether to show photos of the bullet-torn bodies of children. It’s an old question, but gaining in fervor as mass shootings with assault rifles and […]

http://www.thepropreport.com image By Casey Bukro Ethics AdviceLine for Journalists It’s called “the Texas massacre,” the Uvalde, Texas, school shooting that left 19 children and two teachers dead. The 18-year old gunman was killed by police. That came 10 days after another 18-year-old shot 10 African Americans at a supermarket in […]

killtolive.itch.io image By Casey Bukro Ethics AdviceLine for Journalists The Minnesota reporter said she had a “strange and not-disclosable” relationship with a news source, but it was not sexual, not even a friendship. The source, an elected official, gives the reporter insights into stories on the county beat, but the […]

news.sky.com image By Casey Bukro Ethics AdviceLine for Journalists. A soothsayer warned Julius Caesar to beware the ides of March, sometime around 44 BC. Daniel Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers to newspapers in 1971, revealing that the Johnson administration had systematically lied about the United States’ political and military involvement […]

By Casey Bukro Ethics AdviceLine for Journalists They’re at it again, those Facebook algorithms that act more like mischievous gremlins. I wrote a post about the first Earth Day 52 years ago, and attempted to boost it with advertising. Meta for Business, the corporate parent of Facebook, rejected the boost, […]

Earth Day flag 1970 http://www.buffalorising.com image By Casey Bukro Ethics AdviceLine for Journalists Even 52 years later, the dynamic energy of the first Earth Day that swept downtown Chicago on April 22, 1970 is still vividly remembered. “Give earth a chance!” demonstrators chanted as they chain-danced in the streets, while […]

blog.eduonix.com image By Casey Bukro Ethics AdviceLine for Journalists George Orwell was right. Big Brother is watching, only now they are called algorithms, the list of instructions and rules that a computer needs to do a task. In Orwell’s book, 1984, Big Brother included totalitarian forces that governed the thoughts […]

thechefkatrina.com image By Casey Bukro Ethics AdviceLine for Journalists. Case study: Is it ethical to publish, in an online magazine, emails and blog posts forwarded to the magazine? That was the question an Ethics AdviceLine for Journalists advisor got from a student who is the executive editor of an online […]