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    journalists for decades, however, citizen journalism has skyrocketed in recent years with the growth of the Internet. These citizen journalists have no professional training in journalism collecting and news distribution (Netzley). Citizen journalists are collecting, reporting, analyzing, and disseminating news without any formal training but provides independent, relevant information (Barnes). Traditional media outlets are not being outdone by citizen journalism in today’s society, but their platform

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    Essay on Codes of Practice

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    Ethics and values apply to our personal and professional lives. Ethics are a notion of one’s actions, which originates from ideology of an individual doing what is right not wrong. According to the dictionary ethics is the “branch of philosophy dealing with values relating to human conduct, with respect to the rightness and wrongness of certain actions and to the goodness and badness of the motives and ends of such actions.” These beliefs are amassed to help a person determine how their actions will

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    Journalistic Standards in the Matt Drudge Era Introduction Public trust is at the heart of journalism. Such trust is built upon the credibility journalistic efforts. In the past, though mistakes have been made by even the most reputable of news providers, credibility was maintained and public trust in the journalist industry was steady. However, with the Internet taking its first infant steps into the reporting world, concern is being vocalized that public trust in journalism will be damaged

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    Essay on The Watergate Scandal

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    June 17, 1972 forever changed both journalism and politics. A simple botched break-in marked the downfall of President Richard Nixon, and the rise to glory of two obscure young Washington Post journalists: Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward. While their investigative journalism revealed the truth, their questionable methods and ethics have led to these questions; Do the ends justify the means? Was their behavior ethical and legal? The Watergate Scandal was a major political scandal during the Presidency

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    I N T R O D U C T I O N “A free, aggressive, open and bold press is part of the spiritual core of our Democracy”. -Thomas Jefferson In the world we are living today, investigative journalism is becoming a significant part in our daily lives as it informs, unleash and reveals us the happenings in our community, society, government and in the country. Having the democracy to exercise and express our freedom of the press, which was have been suppressed before, during the Marcos regime, we can say

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    on specialist content; however, videogames journalism is an expanding industry with most mainstream traditional newspapers now having a dedicated games section. As such, this study examined both newspapers and dedicated digital content, which is explained in detail in Chapter 3. This approach aimed to reveal whether gaming culture has become more inclusive, reflecting its changing demographic, and answer the research question, ‘Does videogame journalism content continue to fail in its ethical duties

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    most famous cases of undercover journalism—see Nellie Bly and PrimeTime Live—as well as the most infamous—James O’Keefe (Marx). When discussing undercover journalism, we must pose the question: can undercover journalism also be ethical journalism? And, regardless of the previous answer, is it ever justified? I will address both of these questions through the analysis of Shane Bauer’s 2016 Mother Jones’ piece on private prisons. The ethics of undercover journalism are more relevant now, more than

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    The professional Ethics

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    Professional Ethics There is general recognition of the fact that journalists have responsibilities not only vis-à-vis their own convictions but also towards the public. Summarily, four kinds of responsibility may be defined: contractual responsibility in relation to the media and their internal organisation, a social responsibility entailing obligations towards public opinion and society as a whole, responsibility or liability deriving from the obligation to comply with the law and responsibility

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    Erin Andrews Reebok

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    person.” This finding coupled with the already controversial topic of whether a journalist should endorse a commercial product for a stipend, raises some interesting concerns. Furthermore, does accepting these endorsements pose a threat to journalism and its ethics and constitute a conflict of interest [as to whether any journalist should endorse a commercial product]? Case in point, Reebok’s hiring of Erin Andrews, ESPN reporter and voted Playboy magazine’s sexiest reporter, to endorse a new line

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    Ethical journalism requires conscientious decision making in context There is indeed a grain of truth in the above statement, journalism ethics does require careful decision making. However, it would have been ideal if conscientious decision could be applied to all contexts. Journalists can be said to be the moral agents of societies. They act as watchdogs or ‘newshounds’, as well as active collectors and disseminators of information (Deuze 2004). Moreover, their job entails certain obligations

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