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Mental Illness and Privacy

November 29, 2022 admin 0

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 […]

Rare Ethics Feud

October 19, 2022 admin 0

By Casey Bukro Ethics AdviceLine for Journalists Seldom do Chicago journalists quarrel in public over ethics, especially when all of them are retired broadcasters from the same Chicago TV station. But that happened when Charles Thomas, former ABC7 political reporter, appeared in a series of TV ads lauding GOP Illinois […]

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Fake or Fact

October 1, 2022 admin 0

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 […]

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Naming A Boy in Sex Case

September 21, 2022 admin 0

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 […]

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Lawyer Seeks Advice

September 2, 2022 admin 0

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 […]

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Racism Riles Newsroom

August 16, 2022 admin 0

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 […]

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American Indian Ethics

August 8, 2022 admin 0

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 […]

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Politicians Driving Drunk

June 30, 2022 admin 0

dekerivers.wordpress.com image By Casey Bukro Ethics AdviceLine for Journalists A team of reporters with a Minnesota newspaper wonder if it would be unfair to report that three candidates for public office were convicted for driving while under the influence and driving while intoxicated. Two candidates are running for county attorney […]

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Leaked Abortion Decision

June 24, 2022 admin 0

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 […]

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Photos of Dead Children

June 17, 2022 admin 0

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 […]