NYT Editors’ Regrets

May 21, 2022 admin 0

dribble.com image By Casey Bukro Ethics AdviceLine for Journalists Regrets, they’ve had a few. They occupy the highest rungs of journalism leadership, the executive editors of the New York Times. The newspaper’s footprint on American journalism is so big, changes in its leadership is news. As when the Times announced […]

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Troubling News Source

May 13, 2022 admin 0

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 […]

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Roe vs. Wade Leak

May 5, 2022 admin 0

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 […]

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Facebook Social Issues

April 29, 2022 admin 0

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, […]

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Earth Day 2022

April 21, 2022 admin 0

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 […]

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Ethics and Algorithms

April 15, 2022 admin 0

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 […]

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Blogging Ethics

March 30, 2022 admin 0

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 […]

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Branding: Meta and WMX

March 17, 2022 admin 0

tw.stock yahoo.com image By Casey Bukro Ethics AdviceLine for Journalists Rebranding is a big deal for any company, a decision that can make or break a company. It’s also an occasion for a company leader to show how powerful he or she is. It’s usually their decision. Facebook founder Mark […]

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Bigfooting At The Times

February 21, 2022 admin 0

Sarah Palin talks about New York Times libel trial. newyorklatestnews.com image By Casey Bukro Ethics AdviceLine for Journalists The New York Times’ editorial page editor went bigfooting into an editorial about the dangers of violent political rhetoric, setting the stage for a cringe-worthy series of fumbled editing events that landed […]

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Cyber-tsunami Hits Ethics

January 14, 2022 admin 0

conseildepresse.oc image By Casey Bukro Ethics AdviceLine for Journalists The Washington News Council in Seattle showed that journalism ethics is a tough sell. It was the only news council left in the United States when it called it quits in 2014, after 15 years of taking citizen complaints against media […]