Focusing on public health, not politics: The train wreck becomes the story, at the expense of informing the public or holding power to account, writes Maria Bustillo.
MSNBC demonstrates an alternative, sober path away from outrage mania, she writes.
Category Archives: Transparency
Crisis Demands Media Collaboration
Crisis demands media collaboration: Working together is more efficient and conserves resources that “could be deployed in smarter ways that the public needs,” writes Dan Gillmore.
Be calm, broad, precise, transparent, engaged and relentlessly useful, he writes.
Media Transparency Debate
Media transparency debate: Two views of transparency in journalism. From the Ethics AdviceLine for Journalists archives.
NYT Seeks Ethical Op-Eds
NYT seeks ethical Op-Eds: After an Op-Ed stumble, top editors assign the standards editor to advise the Opinion department.
“While our news and opinion journalists will continue to have separate, distinct missions, their work is rooted in common standards for accuracy, fairness and integrity,” they say.
Broadcast Transparency
Broadcast transparency: Knight-Cronkite News Lab study finds that showing the process of reporting a story increased trust in broadcast news.
Secret to earning audience trust is “show your work.”
The Backgrounder Blight
The backgrounder blight: A Washington Post reporter offers an interview “on background.” The Post’s media critic calls that transparency. Are they nuts?
Media Covering Their Own Scandals
Media covering their own scandals: Sex scandals in 2017 and 2018 brought down top media figures, forcing outlets to report about themselves.
Organizations faced questions of how sexual harassment and assault could fester unaddressed, writes Claudia Meyer-Samargia.
“But for individual journalists, particularly those who cover news media, questions focused on how they could cover these cases ethically, with the right balance of truth-telling, transparency and respect for privacy.” Protecting an organization’s reputation is an issue.
Ethics of Stock Imagery
Ethics of stock imagery: Using old images with new stories is not ethical journalism, Mark E. Johnson tells Jack Kelly. It’s like using generic quotes in a story.
Visuals attached to stories increase engagement, writes Kelly. But “photojournalists and visual journalists are often the first members of a newsroom to be the victims of budget cuts,” resulting in the use of stock images.
Scholars Ponder Media Transparency
Scholars ponder media transparency: They often do not explain what it means in practice, write Michael Palanski and Andrea Hickerson.
“Media organizations may believe they are acting transparently, but incomplete attempts at transparency may damage credibility and thus do more harm than good,” they write.
The Emergence of Transparency
The emergence of transparency: Transparency became a new guiding principle in media ethics, touching off a debate over whether it should replace acting independently.
From the Ethics AdviceLine for Journalists archives.
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