Ethics AdviceLine

bahaiteachings.org image By Casey Bukro Ethics AdviceLine for Journalists A student is interviewed for a California student newspaper, some of it off-record and some of it on the record, about a rape on campus. Later, the student who was interviewed calls the student journalists and asks them not to publish […]

  http://www.hngn.com image By Casey Bukro Ethics AdviceLine for Journalists Allowing for time to grieve, journalists in Plymouth, England, are taking a break from interviewing relatives of six people, including a three-year-old girl, killed in a mass shooting […]

bahaiteachings.org image By Casey Bukro Ethics AdviceLine for Journalists A small Illinois daily newspaper routinely publishes photos of vehicle crashes that meet its standards: No blood, no bodies or other graphic imagery and no license plates shown. The editor contacted the Ethics AdviceLine for Journalists saying some readers complain that […]

Comedian Bill Cosby responds to charges against him in September 2015. (A&E) By Casey Bukro Ethics AdviceLine for Journalists Comedian Bill Cosby was released from prison in June after serving almost three years for drugging and assaulting a woman athlete. In 2014, the Ethics AdviceLine for Journalists examined the Cosby […]

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 […]

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 […]

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,” […]