Journalism ethics and standards

Photojournalism and digital imaging ethics Photojournalism, present day finds itself standing at the proverbial crossroads. Will digital imaging technologies and public cynicism lead to its downfall or will journalists rise to the challenge by practicing a new more credible form of visual /photo journalism. Ethical blunders by such journalistic icons as National Geographic and TIME have all contributed to visual journalism losing credibility with the public. It was only a hundred years ago that

When University of Florida journalism professor Mike Foley was called to the stand during the trial, he said that, “Gawker’s writers and editors violated the SPJ’s code of ethics when they failed to verify the source of the tape” and “reach out to Hogan for comment before publication or consider what harm publishing the tape might do to him” (Sterne, 2016). However, he then stated, “The ethics code is not intended as a legal standard. It’s a set of best practices to guide journalists

founder of the University of Missouri’s Journalism School, believed that unless journalists were trained as professionals, they would never earn the public’s trust. Journalists needed to be held accountable professionally and personally in order for the profession to endure. In 1914, Williams wrote the Journalist’s creed. The creed was an affirmation of the ethics of journalism. Although the creed still is the clearest definition of the principles, standards, and values of journalists, the world is

in the real world but in a digital domain. It come to known as the “#Gamergate” movement, a movement that is based on concerned with ethics in game journalism and with the protecting the “gamer” identity. Though, the movement is an ostensibly one, Gamergate is not much more than a tone-deaf rabble of angry obsessive with a misguided understanding in journalistic ethics, however that is absolutely no reasons not to disregard the movement. The movement was started with a gaming developer who goes by

The essence of this contention is that presently, privacy is not considered a legal tort and journalists and journalism practice are currently exempt from the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth). This is the case provided “the practice is engaged in by the organisation...(and) deal with privacy in the context of the activities of a media organisation” (The Privacy Act (Cth) s7B(4)). The basis of the concept of privacy leads to speculation over whether current laws must be tightened to secure the privacy of Australian

censoring their material as long as it follows the morals of journalism.

A quick glance into Joan Didion’s life would put readers under the assumption that she identifies as a standard second-wave feminist. A prominent female writer in the 1960s, Didion had initially left me drawing connections to the likes of Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem. Even her stern gaze present on book covers and articles seems to give off a sense of feminine mystique. But after careful venture into her work, it is my understanding that while feminism plays a role in what Didion tackles as a

Tunnels, Greg Mitchell deconstructs the media coverage of the Berlin Wall tunnels. Reporters must always be ethical, especially when covering crisis situations. However, several media outlets failed to meet the ethical criteria in the SPJ Code of Ethics, and in effect, put lives in danger and put the United States government in a difficult position when negotiating with the Soviet Union. The first issue that arose from Western media coverage was the publishing of names and locations of people attempting

Code of ethics, are implemented to educate employees on the ethical principles, morals and values of a company or organization. Organizations such as the National Association for Social Workers (NASW), and the National Organization for Human Services (NOHS) have ethical codes in place for individuals working within the Human Services field. The American Psychological Association (APA) have ethical principles for psychologists. Furthermore, journalist’s and corporations have ethical codes they must

Fake news is a current buzz phrase, a term that is fashionable in popular culture to describe the field of journalism today. Underpinned by negative connotations and widespread misunderstanding of the term’s meaning, the fake news of today is the so-called yellow journalism of yesterday (U.S. Diplomacy, n.d.). Yellow journalism, or a type of reporting that prioritizes sensationalism over facts, has been circulating in one form or another since ancient times: in ancient Rome, Octavion won his famed