This volume provides a comprehensive discussion of enduring and emerging challenges to ethical journalism worldwide.
The collection highlights journalism practice that makes a positive contribution to people’s lives, investigates the link between institutional power and ethical practices in journalism, and explores the relationship between ethical standards and journalistic practice. Chapters in the volume represent three key commitments: (1) ensuring practice informed by theory, (2) providing professional guidance to journalists, and (3) offering an expanded worldview that examines journalism ethics beyond traditional boundaries and borders. With input from over 60 expert contributors, it offers a global perspective on journalism ethics and embraces ideas from well-known and emerging journalism scholars and practitioners from around the world.
The Routledge Companion to Journalism Ethics serves as a one-stop shop for journalism ethics scholars and students as well as industry practitioners and experts.
Chapter 45 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
Edited by:
Lada Trifonova Price,
Karen Sanders,
Wendy N. Wyatt
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 246mm,
Width: 174mm,
Weight: 1.020kg
ISBN: 9781032041599
ISBN 10: 1032041595
Series: Routledge Journalism Companions
Pages: 528
Publication Date: 04 October 2024
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Primary
,
Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
"List of contributors Introduction Lada Trifonova Price, Karen Sanders, and Wendy N. Wyatt SECTION 1 The development of journalism ethics and perspectives from around the world 1 Why ethics still matters Karen Sanders 2 From parochial to global: the turbulent history of journalism ethics Stephen J. A. Ward 3 From journalism ethics to communication ethics Pieter J. Fourie 4 Becoming Junzi: a Confucian approach to journalism ethics Yayu Feng 5 Journalism culture and ethical ideology Thomas Hanitzsch 6 Revisiting the requirements of Hutchins: context and coverage in the post-George Floyd world Scott Libin 7 Treating ""local"" journalists ethically: international news organizations and global media ethics Lindsay Palmer 8 The case for global media ethics Herman Wasserman 9 Slow journalism as ethical journalism? Tony Harcup 10 An Islamic perspective on media ethics: revisiting Western journalism ethics Saadia Izzeldin Malik 11 I am because we are: a relational approach to journalism Leyla Tavernaro-Haidarian 12 Journalism ethics and practice in enclave societies Nakhi Mishol-Shauli and Oren Golan 13 ""Tell China’s story well"": ethical orientations of Chinese journalists in international reporting Tianbo Xu and Minyao Tang 14 Formal freedom but tacit control: journalism in Japan Shinji Oi, Shinsuke Sako, and Masaki Naka 15 Ethical choices in Brazilian journalism: corruption, investigation, and community media Raquel Paiva and Alexandre Enrique Leitão 16 Visual ethics: a matter of survival Julianne H. Newton SECTION 2 Enduring issues in journalism ethics PART I Broad issues 17 The ethics of privacy and the public interest: from principle to application Franz Krüger 18 Exploring key principles: neutrality, balance, objectivity, and truth Richard Thomas 19 Professional autonomy in an age of corporate interests Angela Phillips 20 The ethics of transparency Stephanie Craft and Tim P. Vos 21 Journalism ethics and political satire Chad Painter 22 ""Ventriloquists’ dummies"" or truth bringers? The journalist’s role in giving whistle-blowers a voice Paul Lashmar 23 Ethical approaches to reporting death and trauma affecting ordinary people Jackie Newton and Sallyanne Duncan 24 Islam in the news: a model for transformation Jacqui Ewart and Kate O’Donnell 25 Ethics and reporting on religion: from public interest to public good Verica Rupar 26 Representing women: challenges for the UK media and beyond Suzanne Franks and Katie Toms PART II Case studies on day-to-day practices 27 The ethics of reporting rape in India: a case study Somava Pande 28 Suicide news items and the pornographization of death: a Turkish case study Elif Korap Özel and Şadiye Deniz 29 Journalism ethics and the political economy of zakazukha and kompromat in Russia Anna Klyueva 30 Echo chamber journalism: migration reporting in Hungary Péter Bajomi-Lázár 31 Beyond the ethics of objectivity: covering the refugee crisis in Slovenia Dejan Jontes 32 Media capture in Central and Eastern Europe: the corrosive impact on democracy and desecration of journalistic ethics William Horsley 33 Mapping ethical dilemmas for sports journalism: an overview of the Spanish landscape José Luis Rojas-Torrijos and Xavier Ramon-Vegas SECTION 3 Emerging issues in journalism ethics 34 Ethical issues in data journalism Bastiaan Vanacker 35 Ethical issues in large-scale journalistic investigations Gillian Phillips 36 Journalists’ use of UGC and automated content: ethical issues Ramón Salaverría 37 Algorithmic news: ethical implications of bias in artificial intelligence in journalism Kathleen Bartzen Culver and Xerxes Minocher 38 The moral mandate of virtual reality journalism John V. Pavlik 39 Clickbait and banal news David Harte 40 ""BREAKING NEWS"": sourcing, online newsgathering, and verification David A. Craig 41 The case for using informed consent in journalism Bruce Gillespie 42 Ethical implications of the right to be forgotten Ana Azurmendi 43 The influence of fake news: rebuilding public trust in journalism Kati Tusinski Berg 44 Native advertising and the negotiation of autonomy, transparency, and deception Raul Ferrer-Conill, Michael Karlsson, and Elizabeth Van Couvering 45 Journalism ethics and its participatory turn Tobias Eberwein 46 Facebook and the boundaries of professional journalism Brett G. Johnson and Kimberly Kelling SECTION 4 Standard setting 47 Press self-regulation in an international context Susanne Fengler 48 Journalism codes of conduct and ethics as a form of media governance Katharine Sarikakis and Lisa Winter 49 Responsible freedom: the democratic challenge of regulating online media Jessica Heesen 50 Setting limits and controlling the media for ethical journalism Chris Frost 51 Organizational ethics: theories and evidence of the influence of organizations on news content and the ethics of individual journalists Renita Coleman and Hussain Alkhafaji 52 Where accountability is insufficient, bad journalism thrives: the case of the United Kingdom press Brian Cathcart 53 Media accountability and complaint handling in Spain Dolors Palau-Sampio 54 Reminders of responsibility: journalism ethics codes in Western Europe Epp Lauk 55 Masters in their own house: media self-regulation as a safeguard for press freedom Svein Brurås 56 Ethics codes in post-communist countries: the case of Bulgaria and Romania Lada Trifonova Price 57 The humble yet lofty goals of a journalism ethics course Wendy N. Wyatt Index"
Lada Trifonova Price is a senior journalism lecturer in the Department of Media, Arts, and Communication at Sheffield Hallam University in the UK. She is a former journalist, and her current research focuses on media and journalistic practice in transitional democracies. She is a co-director of education at the Centre for Freedom of the Media, one of the leading non-profit organizations in the field of journalism safety. Some recent publications include original research articles on media corruption, chapters on impact of media censorship and self-censorship on journalism in post-communist countries, and analyses of the effects of democratization on the media landscape of Bulgaria and Romania. Karen Sanders is a professor of communication and politics at St Mary’s University (London, UK). She has published widely on ethics, identity, and public communication and is the author of key texts such as Ethics and Journalism (2003) and Communicating Politics in the 21st Century (2008). She is a founding member of the journal Ethical Space and of the Association of Political Communication (ACOP). Previously professor in Madrid and Sheffield University, she lived for a time in Peru, resulting in the publication of an account of the intellectual foundations of the modern Peruvian state. Sanders has a special interest in understanding and fostering respectful communication in high‐risk organizations. Wendy N. Wyatt is the vice provost for academic affairs and a professor of media ethics at the University of St. Thomas-Minnesota in the US. Her research focuses on issues of media and democracy, and she has particular interests in journalism ethics, citizen responsibilities to the media, and media literacy. Wyatt was part of the five-person editorial team that guided development of the Online News Association’s ""Build Your Own Ethics Code"" platform.
