"A timely call for a new ethic of journalism engagement for today's troubled media sphere, Objectively Engaged Journalism argues that media should be neither neutral nor partisan but engaged in protecting egalitarian democracy. It shows how journalists, professional or citizen, can be both objective
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in method and dedicated to improving a global public sphere toxic with disinformation, fake news, and extremism. Drawing from history, ethics, and current media issues, Stephen Ward rejects the ideals of neutrality and "just the facts" objectivity, showing how they are based on invalid dualistic thinking with deep roots in Western culture. He presents a theory of pragmatic objectivity and applies it to journalism. Journalism's role in interpreting culture, he argues, needs a form of objectivity that embraces human strengths and limitations. Defining responsible journalism as situated, imperfect inquiry, Objectively Engaged Journalism is one of the first systematic studies of the ethical foundations of engaged journalism for a media that is increasingly perspectival and embedded in society." (Publisher description)
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"Exploring Communication Ethics is a comprehensive textbook on the ethical issues facing communication professionals in today's rapidly changing media environment. Empowering students to respond to real-world ethical dilemmas by drawing upon philosophical principles, historical background, and the e
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thical guidelines of major professional organizations, this book is designed to stimulate class discussion through real-world examples, case studies, and discussion problems. Students will learn how to mediate between the best interests of their employers and their responsibilities toward other parties, and to consider how economic, technological, and legal changes in their industries affect these ethical considerations." (Publisher description)
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"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.
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Focusing on a wide spectrum of ethical issues faced by media practitioners, the cases in this Eleventh Edition include the most recent issues in journalism, broadcasting, advertising, public relations, and entertainment. Cases touch on issues and places worldwide, from Al Jazeera to the Xinhua News Agency, from Nigerian “brown envelopes” to PR professional standards in South Africa. Racially divisive language comes up in different communication contexts, as does celebrity influence on culture." (Publisher description)
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"This edited volume examines how the growth of social media and ancillary computer systems is affecting the relationship between journalism and the pursuit of truth. Experts explore how news is perceived and identified, presented to the public, and how the public responds to news. They consider soci
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al media’s effect on the craft of journalism as well as the growing role of algorithms, big data, and automatic content production regimes. The volume’s aim is to confront these issues in a way that will be of enduring relevance; the discussions about contemporary journalism inform current students and help scholars in the future. Chapters reflect on questions such as what is different and what remains the same in journalism’s pursuit of truth now that social media has become such a prominent force in news gathering, dissemination, and reinterpretation? How has reader participation and responses changed? What are the implications for journalistic information gathering and truth claims? What is different now about the social roles of journalists and media institutions? How does interaction between journalists and social media affect democratic practices? The chapters offer a mix of empirical and critical work that reflects on journalism’s past, present, and future roles in our lives and in society." (Publisher description)
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"Sin desconocer el esfuerzo del periodismo por contar las historias, cabe reconocer que se han cometido errores en el cubrimiento, de ahí la importancia de los periodistas, ya que el peso que tiene cada pequeña noticia, escrita o leída, puede convertirse en una pieza clave en la reconstrucción d
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e las historias y la verdad ante una desaparición. Consejo de Redacción (CdR), la Unidad de Búsqueda de Personas Dadas por Desaparecidas (UBPD), el Comité Internacional de la Cruz Roja (CICR) y el Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo (PNUD) decidieron unirse alrededor de este fenómeno para ofrecer una guía que aporte a mejorar el cubrimiento del tema y la construcción de registros de búsqueda de personas. Cada capítulo tiene ideas que dan luz para investigar historias y preguntas inspiradoras, que ayudan a que los reporteros de todo el país puedan remediar sus omisiones y contar todo aquello que aún no se cuenta. Algunos de los temas que se encontrarán son: el repaso histórico de cómo el Estado colombiano aceptó añadir este delito en el código penal, los casos esclarecidos por las cortes, los NN que aumentan la lista de desaparecidos, el daño que ha producido en la sociedad y los familiares la desaparición, el mal manejo de estas historias, entre otros." (https://consejoderedaccion.org)
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"Toolkit Objectives: 1. Help journalists find practical applications for the “Journalists’ Pact for Strengthening Civil Peace in Lebanon.” 2. Practice reporting on issues in a way that overcomes divisions, provides solutions and develops stronger bonds between all members of the community. 3.
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Familiarise journalists with news assessment techniques that follow a systematic and scientific approach to measure story quality against journalistic values and potential impact on civil peace. The Pact’s 5Ws & H: What? A Journalists’ Pact for Strengthening Civil Peace that includes 18 articles. Where? Lebanon. When? 2013. Who? Launched by UNDP Lebanon in partnership with the Ministry of Information endorsed by 32 media institutions, National Council for Audiovisual Media, press and editor’s syndicates. Why? To support the role of the media in strengthening civil peace in Lebanon. How? By enabling greater ethics in the practices of Lebanese media, focusing on the principles of accuracy, fairness and humanity in reporting." (Pages 4-5)
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"Le présent ouvrage, qui procède à la nécropsie des cellules cancéreuses des différents aspects de l’espace médiatico-journalistique de la formation sociale haïtienne, offre un cadre procédural à l’aune de l’Éthique de la discussion de Jürgen Habermas et de l’Éthique reconstruct
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ive de Jean-Marc Ferry devant servir de tablature à l’autorégulation de la presse haïtienne." (Dos de couverture)
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"Yolanda Ruiz recuerda el día que habló con Pablo Escobar para hacer una entrevista que esperó más de dos décadas para ser publicada. Tiene vivo también el impacto de ver los restos del avión que, según se dice en una versión controvertida, mandó a derribar el capo. Ha narrado la muerte de
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mil maneras y también las búsquedas desesperadas de paz. Frente a las cámaras de televisión y los micrófonos de la radio ha acumulado treinta y cuatro años de periodismo y ha enfrentado retos humanos y éticos. Ese tiempo le permite ver el espejo retrovisor y recordar muchas anécdotas y encrucijadas a las que ha tenido que enfrentarse para narrar el país. ¿Cómo preguntarle a Clara Rojas por su hijo horas después de haber sido liberada tras siete años de secuestro, o a Claudia Morales cuando acaba de denunciar una violación de la que fue víctima en el pasado? ¿De qué manera rectificar si se acaba de decir al aire que el político e industrial Pedro Juan Moreno y sus compañeros de viaje salieron ilesos cuando el helicóptero en el que volaban se fue a pique? ¿Qué hacer si un expresidente cuelga el teléfono en una entrevista al aire? ¿Cómo se aborda la denuncia de un escándalo en la Corte constitucional? ¿Cómo enfrentar el reto digital y las noticias falsas? ¿Cómo informar sobre un secuestro de periodistas o cómo enfrentar una amenaza? ¿Cómo mantener distancia cuando estamos también en la mira de los violentos? Este libro, además de repasar algunos de los sucesos más recordados de Colombia en los últimos 30 años, nos asoma al tras escena de la información para dejarnos ver cómo se cocinan las noticias y entender cómo se toman decisiones difíciles en medio de momentos complejos. Es una evaluación reflexiva y profunda sobre cómo funcionan los medios de comunicación en Colombia, por qué las redes están transformando el oficio, y por qué el afán de la "chiva" sigue dejando muchas lecciones. Una evaluación que solo el tiempo transcurrido y la experiencia de una periodista como Yolanda Ruiz permiten hacer con responsabilidad y humanismo." (Descripción de la casa editorial)
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"We define journalism as the gathering, production and dissemination of information in a framework of ethical values. Its purpose is to provide citizens with information that empowers them to fully participate in society. We commit ourselves to four primary indicators of ethical quality in journalis
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tic work: ethical practice in editorial activity; good governance in the ownership and management of news media; respect for principles of self-regulation and active engagement with the public." (Preamble, page 6)
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"El módulo explora la importancia crítica de la ética para medios tradicionales, como el periodismo, y para medios modernos, como las redes sociales. La presencia de las redes sociales y las noticias digitales ha aumentado la responsabilidad ética de la gente que opera en este campo, especialmen
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te teniendo en cuenta el alcance global y el poderoso impacto de estos nuevos tipos de medios de comunicación. Estos cambios, junto con las noticias falsas y el aumento de las restricciones a los medios de todo el mundo, hacen que este módulo sea importante y relevante para alumnos de cualquier disciplina. Reconociendo este panorama cambiante, el módulo extiende la discusión de las responsabilidades éticas más allá de los periodistas profesionales hasta la gente que consume las noticias, los usuarios de las redes sociales y los llamados "periodistas ciudadanos". Está diseñado para ayudar a los ponentes a ampliar la comprensión de sus alumnos de quién es exactamente un proveedor o un consumidor de medios de comunicación, y qué tipo de consideraciones éticas deben tener en cuenta quienes desempeñan estas funciones. Este módulo también busca hacer que los alumnos comprendan el efecto perjudicial que puede tener la falta de integridad y ética en la provisión y el consumo de medios de comunicación." (Introducción)
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"This book examines the deeper meaning of the advent of the Al Jazeera Media Network with regard to ongoing debates on global communication ethics, not only in the global public sphere but also in terms of its influence on new non-Western approaches to media ethics. Rather than simply calling for in
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ternational perspectives on media ethic is a unique and significant addition to the literature on the topic. The book investigates whether Al Jazeera's vision, mission, and operations are actually inspired by the New World Information Order debates over contra-flow and hegemony. Further, the book identifies ways of developing new non-Western approaches to global communication ethics, as it suggests injecting more cosmopolitanism in global news reporting and commentary." (Publisher description)
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"With this guide, I aim to help journalists navigate the ethical dilemmas they encounter as they interview people who have experienced harm. While there are numerous practical guides on such interviewing, especially on trauma journalism, I have yet to find a guide that explores the deeper ethical qu
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estions of what conditions, if any, make such journalism morally justifiable and not purely extractive or voyeuristic. I’ve also encountered little public record of journalists discussing these ethical questions though I am confident that such conversations happen, whether at conferences or in private. This guide aims to bring those conversations to the wider public so that journalists and non-journalists alike can see how some of us are thinking through these questions and trying new approaches in search of a more mutually beneficial journalism." (Introduction, page 2)
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"Reporting on issues such as suicide, sexual abuse, or migration is a skill that is often glossed over in a journalist’s education. By combining theory and practice, this collection will correct this oversight and give journalists the expertise and understanding to report on these subjects respons
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ibly and ethically. Contributors to this volume are an international group of journalists-turned-academics, who share their first-hand experiences and unique professional insight into best ethical journalistic practice for reporting on sensitive topics. Drawing from a range of case studies, contributors discuss the most appropriate approach to, for example, describing a shooter who has killed a group of schoolchildren or interviewing someone who has lost everything in a natural disaster. Readers are invited to consider factors which have the potential to influence the reporting of these sorts of topics, including bias, sensationalism, conflict of interest, grief, vulnerability, and ignorance of one’s own privilege." (Publisher description)
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"This article examines the relationship between emphases on ethics within journalism programs in the developing world and the subsequent work practices and conceptualisations of journalists who participated in them. It hypothesises that particular normative emphases within such programs, whose bases
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are contested adversely, affects the preparedness for participants to work ethically in those environments. An analysis of the experiences of journalism trainers and students in Cambodia highlights several tendencies supporting the hypothesis, including that a vocational Western-oriented approach to program implementation correlated with poor understanding of critical ethical ideals among practitioners, which contributed to low occupational confidence, poor ethical practices and the development of a two-tiered press system." (Abstract)
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"The volume digs beneath the standardised and universalised veneer of professionalism to unpack routine practices and normative trends shaped by local factors, including the structural conditions of deprivation, entrenched political instability (and interference), pervasive neo-patrimonial governanc
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e systems, and the influences of technological developments. These varied and complex circumstances are shown to profoundly shape the foundations of journalism in Africa, resulting in routine practices that are both normatively distinct and equally in tune with (imported) Western journalistic cultures. The book thus broadly points to the dialectical nature of news production and the inconsistent and contradictory relationships that characterise news production cultures in Africa." (Publisher description)
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