Online media present both old and new ethical issues for journalists who must make decisions in an interactive, instantaneous environment short on normative standards or guidelines. This user-friendly book guides prospective and professional journalists through ethical questions encountered only online. Including real-life examples and perspectives from online journalists in every chapter, the book examines the issues of gathering information, reporting, interviewing, and writing for mainstream news organizations on the Web. It considers the ethical implications of linking, interactivity, verification, transparency, and Web advertising, as well as the effects of convergence on newsrooms. It also addresses the question of who is a journalist and what is journalism in an age when anyone can be a publisher. Each chapter includes a complex case study that promotes critical thinking and classroom discussion about how to apply the ethical issues covered.

This book teaches students how to make the difficult ethical decisions that journalists routinely face. By taking a case-based approach, the authors argue that the best way to make an ethical decision is to look closely at a particular situation, rather than looking first to an abstract set of ethical theories or principles. This book goes beyond the traditional approaches of many other journalism textbooks by using cases as the starting point for building ethical practices. Casuistry, the technical name of such a method, develops provisional guidelines from the bottom up by reasoning analogically from an "easy" ethical case (the "paradigm") to "harder" ethical cases. Thoroughly grounded in actual experience, this method admits more nuanced judgments than most theoretical approaches.

Media Ethics: Cases and Moral Reasoning challenges readers to think analytically about ethical situations in mass communication through original case studies and commentaries about real-life media experiences. This text provides a comprehensive introduction to the theoretical principles of ethical philosophies, facilitating ethical awareness. It introduces the Potter Box, with its four dimensions of moral analysis, to provide a framework for exploring the steps in moral reasoning and analyzing the cases. Focusing on a wide spectrum of ethical issues faced by media practitioners, the cases in this Tenth Edition include the most recent issues in journalism, broadcasting, advertising, public relations, and entertainment. Visit the companion website at www.mediaethicsbook.com.

This special issue shows that "old ethics" don't always provide ready answers to problems raised by new technology. Exploring the perplexing topic of ethics in new media, this special issue: *examines the ethics of the highly controversial 1998 Cincinnati Enquirer exposé of Chiquita Brands International; *reports on a pilot project involving online journalists and online journalism graduate students; *investigates the extent to which e-mail and listservs are--and could be--effective fora for journalists interested in exploring matters of ethics; and *provides a useful annotated webliography of information resources.

Can News Outlets Regain the Public’s Confidence? Can Governments Control the Press in the Internet Age? Should Americans Have a Right "To Be Forgotten"? Written by award-winning CQ Researcher journalists, this collection of non-partisan reports focuses on 12 hot-button issues facing journalists and news organizations. With reports ranging from perceptions of media bias and threats to free speech, Issues in News and Reporting promotes in-depth discussion, facilitates further research, and helps readers formulate their own positions on crucial issues. And because it’s CQ Researcher, the reports are expertly researched and written, presenting readers with all sides of an issue. Key Features: Chapters follow a consistent organization, beginning with a summary of the issue, then exploring a number of key questions around the issue, next offering background to put the issue into current context, and concluding with a look ahead. A pro/con debate box in every chapter offer readers the opportunity to critically analyze and discuss the issues by exploring a debate between two experts in the field. All issues include a chronology, a bibliography, photos, charts, and figures to offer readers a more complete picture of the issue at hand.

Learn to report, write, and edit for online media with ONLINE JOURNALISM with InfoTrac®! Created specifically with the Internet in mind, this communication text will help you explore the writing opportunities associated with online media. Interviews with online professionals are included throughout the text to give you an idea of exactly what the job of the online journalist entails. A comprehensive Web site helps keep the book up to date and provides additional material, including sound clips of some of the book's interviewees.

Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject Communications - Journalism, Journalism Professions, grade: A-, Central European University Budapest, course: "News Media and Political Power: Lessons from American Perspective", language: English, abstract: The future of news media characterized by uncertainty, over- and underestimation is a fascinating area of study. Nowadays everything is glocal, everyone can be journalist and a political player - news consumers become news producers. Unfortunately, there is a lack of theoretical and empirical researches about the future of journalism. Therefore my research questions are: 1) How will the journalism develop? (global and U.S. vision)? 2) How will the journalism develop in Latvia? 3) What are the development scenarios? The final paper consists of three parts and I have also proposed some recommendations in the end.

Introduction. 1. Setting Up. Uploading the Future. What Is a Multitude Journalism Story? Hardware Needs. Software Needs. Larry Pryor of the Online Journalism Review, A Century Opens, a Century Closes. 2. Day One. The New Grammar. Reconciling Experts and Amateurs. How to Begin Without Tripping at the Start Line. John Pavlik of the Center for New Media, Columbia University School of Journalism, Transforming Journalism Education. 3. Way New Journalism Meets Lord Northcliff. Primary Issues in Reporting an Online Publication. Basic Reporting. Retractions, Corrections, Clarifications. Traps and Triumphs in Partnerships. Advertising. David Weir of Salon.com, The Role of Journalist as Both Church and State in New Media. 4. Gathering Digital Data. Essential Rules of the Game. Using Search Engines. Computer Assisted Reporting. E-mail, Newsgroups, and Mailing Lists. Digitalized Photography and Sound. Mark Potts, Internet Journalism Consultant, Musing on the Future of Journalism. 5.A Message for Each Medium. Writing for the Web. Hyperlinks. Using Video to Tell a Story. The Power of Audio. Still Photography in an Age of Motion. Graphics Getting Graphic. Interactivity in Journalism. Jane Ellen Stevens of the Online Journalists Association, Where Are the New Storytellers? 6. Convergence. Design Online. Fitting the Multiples into a Medium. What Works Right Now. Preparing for What Will Work Tomorrow. Fred Stefany of ReacTV, Converging Cyber-Journalism. 7. Multimedia Editing. Seeing the Parts. Ethics in Online Journalism. Seeing the Whole. Rewriting, Reshooting, Redrawing, Rescripting. Richard Gingras of Excite@Home, Five Hot Tips, or How to Deal with the 26-Year-Old Harvard MBA Who'd Rather You Didn't Exist. 8. Preparing for Liftoff. Final Edits. Libel. Stitching It All Together. Last Minute Emergencies. The Launch. Rusty Coats of the Minneapolis Star-Tribune.com, It's All about Invention. 9.A Journalist's Introduction to Online Intellectual Property. Copyright and Fair Use. Trademarks and Soundmarks. Copyright Checklist. James Wheaton of the First Amendment Project, The New Information Railroad. 10. Issues in the Future of Online Journalism. The Doubts about Online Journalism. The Opportunities for Doing It Right. The Work Ahead. A Parting Salutation. John Markoff of the New York Times, Farewell to the Web.

By combining real-life and hypothetical cases with a succinct introduction to ethical theory, this text helps students prepare for the ethical situations they will encounter in the media professions. It is an ideal choice as the main text in a media ethics course or as a supplemental text in any course in journalism. The new edition reflects changes in the world post 9/11, including the war in Iraq, the Enron and WorldCom scandals, and a new look at media and democracy in light of FCC-approved media consolidation.