Covering mental health: Do more stories on successful mental health treatment, advises Kelly McBride.
Often experts are wrong. Ask how they know that’s the right term, she writes.
It’s The Ads Stupid!
It’s the ads, stupid!: Warren Buffett tells Yahoo Finance that “ads are news to people.”
News is “what you don’t know that you want to know says the finance wizard in a report by Sam Ro. People already know what happened in sports, politics and the stock market. Advertising fat cats win. Others vanish.
News Bundling
News bundling: Apple News Plus is a big test for selling access to many news sources through one platform at one price, writes Mark Jacob.
It’s an acceleration of a business model in which consumers pay, says Tim Franklin. But is it a good deal for publishers and for news organizations?
What #MeToo Means To Ethical Journalism
What #MeToo means to ethical journalism: Three “tragedies” lurk in the tech workplace, finds Claudia Meyere-Samargia while covering a University of Wisconsin ethics conference.
Quoting tech journalist Kara Swisher, they are lack of self-awareness and reflection, believing that money equates social good and having the inability to empathize with people who are not like you.
Teens Make Climate News
Teens make climate news: More than half of surveyed teens said they learned nothing from newspapers about climate change, writes Abby Rabinowitz. Many depend on the internet.
Teen activists use social media to write climate news to “make headlines and framing their message,” she writes. Teens also were a force in the first Earth Day, April 1970.
90 Days, 90 Voices
90 Days, 90 Voices is a nonprofit news outlet aiming to transform immigration reporting by telling better and more ethical stories.
It guidelines call for asking a source how to tell their story, protecting their identity and creating a safe space for the interview.
Historian Explains Journalism
Historian explains journalism: Ron Chernow gives White House correspondents a history lesson, writes Michael M. Grynbaum, on why journalism is important.
“Freedom of the press is always a timely subject and this seems like the perfect moment to go back to basics,” Chernow wrote in a statement.
Chernow avoided offensive comments of the sort delivered by comedians invited in the past to the correspondents’ dinner, directed at politicians invited as guests.
Collaboration Journalism
Collaboration journalism: Local media in the U.K., Italy and Finland turn to teamwork to confront declining revenues and shrinking staffs, writes Christine Schmidt.
It’s “true-blue teamwork using the skills, abilities, tech, and yeah, money pooled between entities to ideally do journalism with a much more powerful punch,” she writes.
Ethics of Purging Archives
Ethics of purging archives: An editor once asked the Ethics AdviceLine for Journalists if there are any ethical requirements to honor requests to delete stories.
An AdviceLine ethicist decided a newspaper should not help people remove information from the historical record. And it’s expensive to do that.
Ethical Media Election Coverage
Ethical media election coverage: “The ethics question at the heart of election coverage is this: What approaches best serve the public interest?” writes Isaac Alter.
Covering it like a horse race trivializes elections, he says. Write about the candidates themselves; don’t overplay opinion polls.
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