The ethics of journalism: individual, institutional and cultural influences
London; New York; Oxford:
Tauris; Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism University of Oxford
(2014), xxiv, 279 pp., index
ISBN 978-1-78076-674-4 (pbk); 978-0-7556-9470-9 (online)
"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 organisational 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." (Publisher)
Contents
1 The norms that govern journalism: an ecological approach / David Pritchard, 1
I. SPHERES OF INFLUENCE: FOSTERING (OR NOT) ETHICAL JOURNALISM
2 The ethical newsroom: where the individual and the collective work together / Tony Harcup, 133
3 My newsroom made me do it: the impact of organisational climate on ethical decision-making / Lee Wilkins, 33
4 Professionalism and journalism ethics in post-authoritarian Mexico: perspectives of news for cash, gifts, and perks / Mireya Marquez Ramirez, 55
5 Covering the private lives of public officials: comparing the United Kingdom, Flanders, and the Netherlands / Bastiaan Vanacker, 65
6 Ethics (of objectivity) and cultural authority: metajournalistic discourse in a post-Socialist context / Dejan Jontes, 73
II. ACCOUNTABILITY MECHANISMS
7 Journalists, journalism ethics, and media accountability: a comparative survey of 14 European and Arab countries / Susanne Fengler, Tobias Eberwein, Julia Lonnendonker, Laura Schneider-Mombaur, 85
8 How news Ombudsem help create ethical and responsible news organisations / Carlos Macia-Barber, 107
9 Do professionalism and ethics reduce or increase pressure for legal accountability? / Robert E. Drechsel, 125
III. INTERSECTIONS: THEORY AND PRACTICE
10 Ethics and journalistic standards: an examination of the relationship between journalism codes of ethics and deontological moral theory / Karen L. Slattery, 147
11 The language of virtue: what can we learn from early journalism codes of ethics? / Thomas H. Bivins, 165
12 The media and democracy: using democratic theory in journalism ethics / David S. Allen and Elizabeth Blanks Hindman, 185
IV. EMERGING ISSUES IN A GLOBAL, DIGITAL AGE
13 Towards knowledge-centered newswork: the ethics of newsroom collaboration in the digital era / Yael de Haan, Annemarie Landman, and Jan Lauren Boyles, 207
14 Can the ethics of the fourth estate persevere in a global age? / Ejvind Hansen, 229
15 Ethics in the age of the solitary journalist / Wendy N. Wyatt and Tom Clasen, 245
I. SPHERES OF INFLUENCE: FOSTERING (OR NOT) ETHICAL JOURNALISM
2 The ethical newsroom: where the individual and the collective work together / Tony Harcup, 133
3 My newsroom made me do it: the impact of organisational climate on ethical decision-making / Lee Wilkins, 33
4 Professionalism and journalism ethics in post-authoritarian Mexico: perspectives of news for cash, gifts, and perks / Mireya Marquez Ramirez, 55
5 Covering the private lives of public officials: comparing the United Kingdom, Flanders, and the Netherlands / Bastiaan Vanacker, 65
6 Ethics (of objectivity) and cultural authority: metajournalistic discourse in a post-Socialist context / Dejan Jontes, 73
II. ACCOUNTABILITY MECHANISMS
7 Journalists, journalism ethics, and media accountability: a comparative survey of 14 European and Arab countries / Susanne Fengler, Tobias Eberwein, Julia Lonnendonker, Laura Schneider-Mombaur, 85
8 How news Ombudsem help create ethical and responsible news organisations / Carlos Macia-Barber, 107
9 Do professionalism and ethics reduce or increase pressure for legal accountability? / Robert E. Drechsel, 125
III. INTERSECTIONS: THEORY AND PRACTICE
10 Ethics and journalistic standards: an examination of the relationship between journalism codes of ethics and deontological moral theory / Karen L. Slattery, 147
11 The language of virtue: what can we learn from early journalism codes of ethics? / Thomas H. Bivins, 165
12 The media and democracy: using democratic theory in journalism ethics / David S. Allen and Elizabeth Blanks Hindman, 185
IV. EMERGING ISSUES IN A GLOBAL, DIGITAL AGE
13 Towards knowledge-centered newswork: the ethics of newsroom collaboration in the digital era / Yael de Haan, Annemarie Landman, and Jan Lauren Boyles, 207
14 Can the ethics of the fourth estate persevere in a global age? / Ejvind Hansen, 229
15 Ethics in the age of the solitary journalist / Wendy N. Wyatt and Tom Clasen, 245
