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Guidelines for re-posting stories
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August 23, 2010 - Posted by Dana Lacey
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Should you factcheck a Twitter post before you re-tweet? Should you verify that every Facebook post is correct before you pass it on to your friends and followers? The CAJ Ethics Committee has created guidelines for sharing stories via social media...
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Photojournalism ethics
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August 23, 2010 - Posted by Dana Lacey
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Pictures are worth 1,000 words – in the newspaper business that equals about 25 inches of print. One image or sound can summarize an event or person or motivate a nation; one image can upset people more than endless pages of print on the subject. Carolynne Burkholder on the ethics of photojournalism.
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The ethics of feature writing
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August 23, 2010 - Posted by Dana Lacey
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In his book, The Bigger Picture, Ivor Shapiro includes a chapter about the ethics of feature writing...
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Codes of ethics
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August 23, 2010 - Posted by Ivor Shapiro
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 Many journalism organizations offer ethics guidelines, including the Canadian Association of Journalists, which has both a general statement of principles and ethical guidelines and specific guidelines for investigative journalism.
The CAJ's U.S. equivalent, the Society of Professional Journalists, has an enviably concise and clear code, and many major news organizations provide guidelines for editorial staff, though not all these documents are available to the public. Of special interest may be the ethics guidelines of The Canadian Press and The New York Times Company.
None of these codes is intended as, or useful as, a rule book for every occasion. Lists of guidelines may help in clarifying some widely accepted norms of practice, but journalists' work calls for frequent decisions of individual and collective conscience which often involve balancing conflicting values and analyzing complex situations. Still, as Stephen J.A. Ward has suggested, codes can, if incorporated into newsroom discussions, inform moral reasoning and promote public accountability.
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Teaching online journalism ethics
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Journalists using social networking sites, photo sharing sites and other new media technologies to gather information face new ethical challenges. Journalists are being forced to re-evaluate such questions as "What is in the public domain?" and "Is it okay to publish information obtained by 'lurking?'" This Online Journalism Blog post describes some of those challenges and reviews a new book called Online Journalism Ethics: Traditions and Transitions by Cecilia Friend and Jane B. Singer that journalism educators may find helpful in adapting their ethics courses.
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Who speaks for a website?
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October 11, 2007 - Posted by Heather McCall
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Online communities often operate as a news medium, rather than a traditionally staffed news publication. Other news reports about these sites, to be fully accurate, should reflect that fact by citing the individual author of information found on the site, rather than just the site itself. Online Journalism Review editor Robert Niles proposes a three-point checklist that reporters ought to follow whenever citing information they find on the Web.
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Ethical guidelines for editing audio
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Mary McGuire
Reporters in every media now record audio for use on the web, with audio slideshows, multimedia packages and other forms of online journalism, in addition to those who do it in radio. As they are learning, software makes all kinds of things possible when editing raw audio. So, what's acceptable and what's not when it comes to editing audio for journalistic purposes?
I was asked recently for a set of dos and don'ts. As a former news reporter and producer for CBC Radio News and now a broadcast journalism professor, here are the rules I have learned, developed and pass on to my students.
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OJR piece explores issue of "rewriting history"
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August 23, 2007 - Posted by Heather McCall
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In this piece for OJR.org, Elizabeth Zwerling, an associate professor of journalism at the University of La Verne in Los Angeles County, attempts to answer the question: Should editors delete or alter online content? She uses various examples from her experience and others, noting that the answer "seems to depend on the story, the publication and a variety of circumstances, which like the medium, are still evolving."
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Even the Internet needs editors
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July 29, 2007 - Posted by Bill Reynolds
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Gary Kamiya, a writer-at-large for Salon, sings the largely unsung praises of newspaper editors. And the former editor argues the one medium that has traditionally resisted editors the most -- the Internet -- is in dire need of editing the most.
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Journalists and Facebook
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July 27, 2007 - Posted by Heather McCall
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 To answer the questions "What's in (Facebook) for journalists? For journalism? And for news organizations, at large?" editors at Poynter.org established a Facebook group called "Journalists and Facebook." They invited about 25 journalists to join the group, posted a few questions to the discussion board and waited. One week later, the group had mushroomed to more than 800 members, journalists and non-journalists, from all over the world. A Centerpiece story reviews what the experience taught them. In a related story, Paul Berton at the London Free Press defends using information found on Facebook while reporting on the murder of an elderly couple in Mount Carmel, Ontario.
Seven months after the Centerpiece story ran, the American Journalism Review reviews that status of journalists and Facebook.
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Journalism ethics sites
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This page at the UBC site contains links to major sites dedicated to media ethics and high-quality journalism, such as the Poynter Institute and the Project for Excellence in Journalism. It also has direct links to a number of major journalistic codes of ethics.
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