Ethics in comedy: For professional comedians, stealing jokes is no laughing matter.
Jokes come in two parts, a setup and a punch line. Does ownership come with one, or both? From the Ethics AdviceLine for Journalists archives.
Category Archives: Accuracy
Etiquette of Linking
Etiquette of linking: The New York Times standards editor tells why the company’s journalists should always link and credit, write Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai and Jason Koebler.
It’s just good journalism to link. It’s free and easy. Readers like it.
Digital Dunces
Digital dunces: Pew Research Center finds many American adults fail digital knowledge quiz.
:While a majority of U.S. adults can correctly answer questions about phishing scams or cookies, other items are more challenging,” like two-factor authentication, says Pew.
Ethical Robo-Journalists
Ethical robo-journalists: Here’s an ethics checklist for robot journalism. From the Ethics AdviceLine for Journalists archives.
Janet Cooke’s World
Janet Cooke’s world: Every student journalist should know about Cooke, the only reporter ever forced to return a Pulitzer Prize because her story about an eight-year-old heroin addict was a hoax.
Bill Green, the Washington Post’s ombudsman, wrote a blistering report on the Post’s editorial lapses that is a model of journalism accountability. It set the standard for ombudsmen. From the Ethics AdviceLine for Journalists archives.
Reporting Data With Integrity
Reporting data with integrity: Journalists trust data to support conclusions, but they can make wrong guesses about what the data meant, writes Stephen Rynkiewicz.
Ask if data are accurate, timely and relevant, he writes.
From the Ethics AdviceLine for Journalists archives.
Public Trust In Leaders
Public trust in leaders: Pew Research Center finds Americans have varying degrees of confidence in those who hold important positions of power and responsibility.
Public school principals, military leaders and police officers rank high in confidence. Religious leaders, journalists and local elected officials rank low.
Google Wins Global Privacy Case
Google wins global privacy case: In a French court, Google agreed to delete search results for a person in Europe only, but not in the rest of the world.
A European court agrees, setting a standard that one country’s internet rules cannot be imposed on other countries.
Ethics of Purging From News Archives
Ethics of purging from news archives: A California editor says people want old stories about them removed from web archives.
Ethicist David Ozar says the first issue is what benefit archives offer a community as an historical record. From the Ethics AdviceLine for Journalists archives.
Vanishing Copy Editors
Vanishing copy editors: Copy editors were among the first to be axed in the internet mass communications revolution, writes Rosie DiManno.
“It is wacko, to me, that newspapers — where accuracy and clean content have always been of utmost importance — would view copy editors as expendable. The upshot has been disastrous.”
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