Two cheers for objective journalism
[Note: This brief opinion piece was originally written for CQ Research. It was supposed to be half of a pro & con online mini-debate, but the con side never showed up and the project was abandoned....
View ArticleA Robust Future for Conflict of Interest
This was first published in: Christopher Meyers, ed., Journalism Ethics: A Philosophical Approach. NY: Oxford University Press, 2010. Conflict of interest has become a centerpiece in the claim by...
View ArticleOnline news undergoes a reprofessionalization. Amen.
For more than a decade now, a steady refrain in the online media has been that the traditional practice of journalism was dying, the victim of technological advance and cultural insurgency. It wasn’t...
View ArticleWhy plagiarism matters
Published on CNN.com, July 19, 2016 I hail from the world of journalism, which has seen its fair share of plagiarism scandals in the past decade or so, starting with the Jayson Blair affair at The New...
View ArticleSafeguarding News in the Era of Disruptive Sources
Published in Journal of Media Ethics, Vol. 2, Issue 2, April-June 2017. Expanded version appeared in After Snowden, Privacy, Secrecy and Security in the Information Age, Ronald Goldfarb, ed. (NY: St....
View ArticleEthics of poverty coverage
Published in the Journal of Mass Media Ethics, June 2013, vol. 28, no. 2, pp. 138-140. https://doi.org/10.1080/08900523.2013.784668 There is historical precedent for the critique known as poverty...
View ArticleDigital defamation, the press, and the law
Can we reform the online culture of rampant libel without making it too easy to harass legitimate media? Originally published in The American Prospect, Aug. 23, 20 Although nobody keeps score, it seems...
View ArticleBritain mulls protecting leakers. The US must do the same.
Originally published in the Columbia Journalism Review, Oct. 22, 2021 Britain’s Official Secrets Act, the country’s main legal instrument against breaches of governmental security, is reviled by...
View ArticleOn the Journalism of Poverty
On the Journalism of Poverty: Foreword to Routledge Companion to Media and Poverty, Sandra L. Borden, editor New York: Routledge, 2022 Extremes of inequality are among the most morally troubling...
View ArticleName the mass shooters, run photos of their victims: The cost of media...
James Holmes, Stephen Paddock, Adam Lanza, Dylann Roof, Seung-Hui Cho, Payton Gendron, David Chou, Jeremy Alesunder, Connor Betts, Patrick Wood Crusius, Robert Aaron Long, Robert Bowers. Recognize...
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