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Ethics in Journalism

Jerry Brown Aide Showed Bad Judgment, But Didn't Break Law in Secretly Taping Reporter

Peter Scheer | Posted 11.04.2009 | Media

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Peter Scheer

Attorney General Jerry Brown's spokesman was unceremoniously "disappeared" from Brown's incipient campaign this week because of a lapse in judgment that, quite frankly, has been grossly overblown.

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Free Lou Dobbs

Ron Galloway | Posted 09.03.2009 | Media

Read More: Lou Dobbs, Walmart, Birthers, Cnn, The Lou Dobbs Show, Ethics in Journalism, Lou Dobbs Immigration, Lou Dobbs Birthers, Journalism, CNN Ratings, Media News
Ron Galloway

Lou Dobbs went way out of his way to make sure that he presented both sides of the story. He didn't have to (or want to), but his professional code insisted he should.

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The Washington Post

Joe Peyronnin | Posted 08.14.2009 | Media

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Joe Peyronnin

Financial pressures are slowly squeezing the life out of news organizations. Hundreds of quality journalists are losing their jobs and news coverage is being reduced. Now even ethical boundaries are being challenged.

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Katie Couric, Tavis Smiley, Bob Woodward, Nicholas Kristof, and I Hit YouTube with Pointers for Citizen Journalists

Arianna Huffington | Posted 07.30.2009 | Media

Read More: Bob Woodward, Tavis Smiley, YouTube Reporters' Center, Ethics in Journalism, Citizen Journalism, Katie Couric, Youtube, Nicholas Kristof, Investigative Journalism, Journalism, Online Journalism, Eyes and Ears, Media News
Arianna Huffington

Citizen journalism is rapidly emerging as an invaluable part of delivering the news. That's why I was delighted to accept YouTube's invitation to do a video offering my take on citizen journalism for the site's new Reporters' Center. READ MORE London Diary: Gordon Brown's Obsessions, The Loyal Opposition's Cuddly Karl Rove, Bad Germs, and the Most Unusual Royal Honeymoon Ever I just ended three days in London that were like a cram session in British politics -- ranging from a conversation with Gordon Brown to dinner with Frances and George Osborne, the Tories' shadow chancellor. READ MORE Watch: Arianna on BBC's "Newsnight" Discussing How the Iran Uprising Is Impacting Journalism Watch: Arianna on MSNBC's "Morning Meeting" Discussing The Financial Crisis and the Sentencing of Bernie Madoff

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How Journalism Plays Twister...To the Right

Will Bunch | Posted 05.16.2009 | Media

Read More: Journalists, Cynthia Tucker, Ronald Reagan, Ethics in Journalism, Richard Nixon, Spiro Agnew, Fair and Balanced, New York Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, Journalism, Atlanta Journal Constitution, Tear Down This Myth, Media News
Will Bunch

It's so true that freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose -- and so our brush here with terminal illness is occasionally truly liberating for America's newsrooms.

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Jason Linkins

Scritti Politti: April 6, 2009

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Ethics in Journalism, Media Criticism, Wiretapping, David Weigel, Ethics, Financial Crisis, William K. Black, Calculated Risk, Israel, Mark Halperin, Unitary Executive, Telecom Immunity, Journalism, The Washington Independent, Politics News

Calculated Risk has some great highlights of Bill Moyers interview with University of Missouri professor William K. Black that are worth reading. Her...

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Ben & Jerry's Cloning Hoax Backfires

Diane Tucker | Posted 05.02.2009 | Media

Read More: Ben & Jerry's Backlash, Martin Eisenstadt, Newspaper Layoffs, Ben & Jerry's, Cyclone Dairy, Diane Tucker, The Daily Show, Journalism, Cloning, Newspaper Industry, Ethics in Journalism, Pet Cloning, MSNBC Martin Eisenstadt, Overstock CEO, Vance Lehmkuhl, Investigative Journalism, William K Wolfrum, Media News
Diane Tucker

With journalism migrating to the internet, it's important readers can trust what they read -- at the very least from companies like Ben & Jerry's that position themselves as concerned about our welfare.

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Will-ful Deceit on Climate Change: Three Blunt Examples

A. Siegel | Posted 03.25.2009 | Green

Read More: Ethics in Journalism, Climate Change, Global Cooling, Envrionment, George F Will, George Will, Washington Post, Media, Ice, Global Warming, Journalism, Green News
A. Siegel

In all three cases, basic fact checking show that George Will's sources and the experts on the issues fundamentally disagree with him.

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The Journalist and the "Other" in Times of War

Sandy Tolan | Posted 02.24.2009 | World

Read More: Journalists, Photography, Wmd, Pentagon, War, Iraq, The Other, Independence, State Department, Journalism, El Salvador, Voices, Iran, Photographs, Conflict, Ethics in Journalism, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Ethics, Wartime, Iason Athanasiadis, Orwell, International, Guillermoprieto, Shadid, Bonner, World News
Sandy Tolan

What is the ethical responsibility of the journalist in telling the story of the Other? And what larger forces come to bear in shaping that story in the press?

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A Wall Street Kind of Scandal on Lexington Ky's Main Street

Don McNay | Posted 02.11.2009 | Business

Read More: Waste in Government, Hank Paulson, Cnbc, Bluegrass Airport, Economic Crisis, AIG Bailout, Aig, Main Street, Don McNay, Government Ethics, Sam Cooke, Fox Business Network, Business Ethics, Ethics in Journalism, Wall Street, Airport, Ethics, Bluegrass, Business News, Kentucky, Ben Bernanke, Lexington KY, Citigroup, Fox News, Business News
Don McNay

The Lexington scandal helped me understand why some in the big city media were going easy on the Wall Street mess, while people like me, living in the heartland, are going crazy about their excesses.

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An Open Letter to Professor Edsall: Retract

Larisa Alexandrovna | Posted 01.25.2009 | Media

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Larisa Alexandrovna

Update at End Let me first say that I respect professor Edsall tremendously. He is a treasure to journalism. Unfortunately, he has been incredibly sl...

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The Appearance of Rational Argument

Ivan Katz | Posted 11.01.2008 | Style

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Ivan Katz

The "appearance of impropriety" is a standardless standard. It is whatever you, as the person perceiving the conduct, elect to make it. On what is your belief based?

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Time to Honor Our Fallen Heroes

Sen. Frank Lautenberg | Posted 08.09.2008 | Home

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Sen. Frank Lautenberg

We have had a long tradition of coming together as a nation to memorialize our fallen heroes--the men and women whose lives were lost on the battlefie...

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When Bad PR Happens to Good People, or, Jeffrey Birnbaum's Revenge

William Klein | Posted 08.07.2008 | Media

Read More: Washington Post, Jeffrey Birnbaum, Ethics in Journalism, Newspaper Op-Eds, Journalism, Public Relations, Dick Van Dyke, Sclc, Congressional Record, Calvin Trillin, Charles Steele, Jr., Victor Navasky, Media News
William Klein

Washington Post columnist Jeffrey Birnbaum has his panties in a twist again about the practice of public policy advocates employing professional writers to help them draft newspaper op-eds.

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Genetically Modified Mouthpieces

Leslie Griffith | Posted 06.10.2008 | Media

Read More: Scott Mcclellan, Rupert Murdoch, Ethics in Journalism, War in Iraq, Political Journalism, Journalism, Jessica Yellin, Us War in Iraq, Media News
Leslie Griffith

Rooting for the war is much easier for journalists than asking hard questions to reveal a conflict based on lies and a country led by liars.

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Jessica Yellin 180°

Chez Pazienza | Posted 06.07.2008 | Media

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Chez Pazienza

What makes Jessica Yellin's "clarification" about her coverage of the run-up to the Iraq war so much fun is that you can almost see the gun being pointed at her head by CNN management as you read her words.

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My Favorite Mistake: Helen Thomas Talks About The Mistakes She Could Never Make

Seema Kalia | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living

Read More: White House Press Corps, Mistakes in Washington, Helen Thomas, Political Journalism, My Favorite Mistake, Political Ethics, Journalism Ethics, Ethics in Journalism, Living News
Seema Kalia

"My Favorite Mistake" is a new biweekly series in which writer Seema Kalia interviews various luminaries about the one mistake that taught them the mo...

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