Media Ethics

Biblio - KBL781 - 2011-01-14 11:56

Authors: Kredens, Julie
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: In West Virginia, many newspaperrs are publishing "Enough!" coupons in each issue. Readers can fill out these coupons with the names of suspected drug dealers and users and return them to state police. Editors of newspapers in West ...
Year: 1990
URL: http://journalism.indiana.edu/resources/ethics/aiding-law-enforcement/is-enough-too-much/

Authors: Fujii, Craig
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: Must newspaper coverage of an event be “representative,” or is the distinctive by itself acceptable? A photograph taken at a AIDS fundraiser and used in the newspaper's coverage of the event provokes criticism. ...
Year: 1989
URL: http://journalism.indiana.edu/resources/ethics/controversial-photos/a-careless-step-a-rash-of-calls/

Authors: Hughes, Robin
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: A local paper published a photograph of a nude man mowing his grass as part of a story about a member of a clothing-optional group whose decision to do his yard work in the buff landed him in court on charges of indecent exposure. ...
Year: 1990
URL: http://journalism.indiana.edu/resources/ethics/controversial-photos/naked-came-the-rider/

Authors: Hughes, Robin
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: A photograph captures an event as no words can. But should the photo be used if it will cause pain to the already grieving family of the picture’s subject?...
Year: 1989
URL: http://journalism.indiana.edu/resources/ethics/controversial-photos/a-photo-that-had-to-be-used/

Authors: Nolan, Mark ; O'Brian, Sue ; Shake, Mari Ann
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: In the unregulated world of photo-jouranlism, many standards are used to decide whether a photograph makes it into the morning paper. In the case of a series of Pulitzer Prize-winning photos showing the graphic murder of a man susp...
Year: 1991
URL: http://journalism.indiana.edu/resources/ethics/controversial-photos/a-picture-of-controversy/

Authors: Appel, Cheryl
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: A newspaper discovers that a city official has a history of headline-making violence. But the official was a child when it happened and has been punished for his crime. Should his past go unreported?...
Year: 1989
URL: http://journalism.indiana.edu/resources/ethics/covering-politics/past-but-not-over/

Authors: McEnroe, Paul
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: When the Star Tribune's editor becomes deeply involved with both the campaign and funding and helping plan a visit to Minnesota of the Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, reporters of the newspaper worry about how it will reflect on...
Year: 1990
URL: http://journalism.indiana.edu/resources/ethics/covering-politics/of-publishers-and-politics/

Authors: Barry, John M.
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: Do journalists have an ethical responsibility to correct wrong information being given by their colleagues?...
Year: 1991
URL: http://journalism.indiana.edu/resources/ethics/covering-politics/to-tell-the-truth/

Authors: Ethridge, Mark F.
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: The Charlotte Observer’s dilemma: Does a newspaper’s obligation to inform voters about a candidate’s character include publishing information that could put his life in danger?...
Year: 1989
URL: http://journalism.indiana.edu/resources/ethics/covering-politics/truth-consequences/

Authors: Hughes, Robin ; Kredens, Julie
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: Some newspapers have begun to include "truth boxes" in issues of their paper that give the text of a political candidate's television commercial and accompany it with a reporter's analysis of the truth of the campaign statements mad...
Year: 1990
URL: http://journalism.indiana.edu/resources/ethics/covering-politics/truth-boxes/

Authors: Carvajal, Doreen
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: Journalists routinely court news sources over lunch, dinner or drinks. Is there a difference in giving money to try and earn the confidence of a drug user when you are doing a report on the subject?...
Year: 1990
URL: http://journalism.indiana.edu/resources/ethics/getting-the-story/rules-arent-neat-on-crack-street/

Authors: Virzi, Anna Maria
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: When 3-year old Brenda Hard was brutally beaten to death in a poor Bridgeport neighborhood just before Christmas, little attention was paid. The police investigation itself did not begin until May. The newspaper the Bridgeport Pos...
Year: 1990
URL: http://journalism.indiana.edu/resources/ethics/getting-the-story/someone-had-to-be-her-advocate/

Authors: Phillips, L.P.
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: While covering the verdict of a local murder trial, the jury wans moved to an undisclosed location. Trying to be there to film the verdict live, a journalist goes into the hotel where the jury trial is deliberating. ...
Year: 1991
URL: http://journalism.indiana.edu/resources/ethics/getting-the-story/trial-by-proximity/

Authors: Elliott, Deni
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: While journalists are taught not to get involved, the author states that in cases where it involves the right to get access to government records and meetings, journalists have an obligation to take up the fight. But carefully. ...
Year: 1991
URL: http://journalism.indiana.edu/resources/ethics/getting-the-story/when-advocacy-is-okay/

Authors: Schwerz, Michael
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: If the state is executing people on the public’s behalf, then journalists have a right and obligation to serve as the public’s witness....
Year: 1991
URL: http://journalism.indiana.edu/resources/ethics/getting-the-story/witness-to-an-execution/

Authors: Hughes, Robin
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: Some broadcasters have solved the problem of how to get political candidates to talk about the issues by giving them two minutes free air time. ...
Year: 1990
URL: http://journalism.indiana.edu/resources/ethics/covering-politics/brother-can-you-spare-some-time/

Authors: Kredens, Julie
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: When a columnist for the Seattle Times uses his column to start a movement against taxpayers bearing the brunt of the bailout of a major corporation, some individuals asked if a newspaper columnist should be making news rather than ...
Year: 1990
URL: http://journalism.indiana.edu/resources/ethics/covering-politics/columnists-crusade-ok-with-seattle-times/

Authors: Brennan, Richard ; Beneteau, Marty
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: The Windsor Star’s decision: When is the mayor’s relationship with his secretary a legitimate part of a story?...
Year: 1989
URL: http://journalism.indiana.edu/resources/ethics/covering-politics/kiss-and-tell/

Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: Does a photo depicting tragedy exploit grief or serve a legitimate news function? Decisions involving the use of photographs are among the most difficult that editors face....
Year: 1989
URL: http://journalism.indiana.edu/resources/ethics/controversial-photos/bringing-death-close/

Authors: Jacobs, Mike
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: While doing a story on a policeman charged with sexual misconduct, one of the victims comes forward and agrees to be interviewed about what had happened to him, and to not reveal his identity. However, after the story has been taped...
Year: 1989
URL: http://journalism.indiana.edu/resources/ethics/handling-sources/when-a-story-source-threatens-suicide/

Authors: McIntyre, Mike
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: A reporter covering the story about the Billboard Bandit, a man who defaced smoking advertisements on billboards with phrases like "Smoking Kills" gets a call from the Bandit himself. The reporter wanted to observe him defacing a b...
Year: 1991
URL: http://journalism.indiana.edu/resources/ethics/getting-the-story/the-billboard-bandit/

Authors: Hauser, Charles McCorkle
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: When a reporter from the Providence Journal-Bulletin used a Freedom of Information Act order to gain summaries of conversations illegally taped by the FBI, a member of the family of the man whose phone had been bugged asked the U.S....
Year: 1989
URL: http://journalism.indiana.edu/resources/ethics/getting-the-story/judgment-on-journalists/

Authors: Kapler, R.
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: To expose security weaknesses at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant, a reporter uses an assumed name to apply for a job as a plant guard. And gets hired. ...
Year: 1989
URL: http://journalism.indiana.edu/resources/ethics/getting-the-story/lying-for-the-story/

Authors: Boyle, Patrick
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: In order to expose flaws in Washington D.C.'s system for detecting drug use among people on probation and parole, a reporter poses as a client of the clinic and substitutes apple juice for urine in his test. After the story broke, ...
Year: 1989
URL: http://journalism.indiana.edu/resources/ethics/getting-the-story/one-way-to-a-good-end/