Ethics AdviceLine

workplaceharmonysolutions.com.au image By Casey Bukro Ethics AdviceLine for Journalists Management for a large Mid-Atlantic television station is telling the news staff to give favorable “news” coverage to local advertisers. The assignment editor knows this is unethical, but what can he do about it? He called the Ethics AdviceLine for Journalists. […]

http://www.ishn.com image By Casey Bukro Ethics AdviceLine for Journalists Can a journalist go too far in trying to be ethical? “Following the ethical rules I’ve believed in for decades are now making it almost impossible for me to do my job,” said a freelance photojournalist, who appealed to AdviceLine for […]

tittlepress.commedia ethics image By Casey Bukro Ethics AdviceLine for Journalists. What does Google do, and how does it work? Sure, you type a question and you get a load of information. If you Google what Google does, here’s the answer you get: “Search engines like Google follow links. They follow […]

St. Patrick’s Mental Health Services image By Casey Bukro Ethics AdviceLine for Journalists. Mental illness places a special responsibility on journalists to be sensitive to those involved in a story, which can become unusually complicated. For example, the Ethics AdviceLine for Journalists was contacted in a case involving a missing […]

nmc-mic.ca image By Casey Bukro Ethics AdviceLine for Journalists The Crain’s Chicago Business editorial headline said it all: “When is a newspaper not a newspaper?” Publications with the look and feel of newspapers containing politically charged articles were cropping up in mailboxes all across Illinois before the Nov. 8 gubernatorial […]

ipkitten.blogpost.com image By Casey Bukro Ethics AdviceLine for Journalists A church youth leader is accused of having a sexual relationship with a boy, a minor at the time of the alleged crime. The youth is 18 years old by the time the case reaches trial. His mother is the first […]

thestaffingsteam.com image By Casey Bukro Ethics AdviceLine for Journalists Journalists typically call the Ethics AdviceLine for Journalists seeking advice about knotty ethics issues. But not all callers are professional journalists. A lawyer called AdviceLine with a question that sometimes puzzles reporters, too: Does a journalist have a duty to inform […]

4029tv.com image By Casey Bukro Ethics AdviceLine for Journalists A reporter/columnist for a North Carolina newspaper gave a speech to members of the League of the South, telling them how to get their white supremacy message out through media. This touched off some friction in the newsroom, causing a staff […]

slideshare.net image By Casey Bukro Ethics AdviceLine for Journalists Showing respect is a basic law of life, says a Native American traditional code of ethics. This might sound soothing to Americans watching the hyper-polarization and mean-spirited castigations rampaging across the nation these days over politics, abortion, war and inflation. American […]