The ethics of journalism
Subtitle: individual, institutional and cultural influences
By: edited by Wendy N. Wyatt
Contributors: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
Series: Challenges; RISJ challenges
Publisher: I.B. Tauris
Published: 2014
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 279
ISBN-13: 9781780766737; 9781780766744
Subjects: Journalistic ethics
Description: The landscape in which journalists now work is substantially different to that of the twentieth century. The rise of digital and social media necessitates a new way of considering the ethical questions facing practicing journalists. This volume considers the various individual, cultural and institutional influences that have an impact on journalistic ethics today. It also examines the links between ethics and professionalism, the organizational promotion of ethical values and the tensions between ethics, freedom of information and speech, and the need to disseminate information. By comparing the theoretical underpinnings of journalistic ethics with a variety of international case studies, this volume provides a comparative global analysis of the ethical challenges faced by the media in the twenty-first century. It will be essential reading for students of journalism and practicing journalists.
Notes: "Published by I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd in association with the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The norms that govern journalism : an ecological approach / David Pritchard; title: The ethical newsroom : where the individual and the collective work together / Tony Harcup; title: My newsroom made me do it : the impact of organisational climate on ethical decision-making / Lee Wilkins; title: Professionalism and journalism ethics in post-authoritarian Mexico : perspectives of news for cash, gifts, and perks / Mireya Marquez Ramirez; title: Covering the private lives of public officials : comparing the United Kingdom, Flanders, and the Netherlands / Bastiaan Vanacker; title: Ethics (of Objectivity) and cultural authority : metajournalistic discourse in a post-Socialist context / Dejan Jontes; title: Journalists, journalism ethics, and media accountability : a comparitive survey of 14 European and Arab countries / Susanne Fengler, Tobias Eberwein, Julia Lonnendonker, adn Laura Schneider-Mombaur; title: How news Ombudsem help create ethical and responsible news organisations / Carlos Macia-Barber; title: Do professionalism and ethics reduce or increase pressure for legal accountability? / Robert E. Drechsel; title: Ethics and journalistic standards : an examination of the relationship between journalism codes of ethics and deontological moral theory / Karen L. Slattery; title: The language of virtue : what can we learn from early journalism codes of ethics? / Thomas H. Bivins; title: The media and democracy : using democratic theory in journalism ethics / David S. Allen and Elizabeth Blanks Hindman; title: Towards knowledge-centered newswork : the ethics of newsroom collaboration in the digital era / Yael de Haan, Annemarie Landman, and Jan Lauren Boyles; title: Can the ethics of the fourth estate persevere in a global age? / Ejvind Hansen; title: Ethics in the age of the solitary journalist / Wendy N. Wyatt and Tom Clasen.