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ISBN 10: 0761969675
ISBN 13: 9780761969679
Author: Dr Karen Sanders
What are ethics? Why does ethical journalism matter? How do ethics affect good journalism? Ethics and Journalism provides a comprehensive overview of the main approaches to ethical enquiry in Western journalism. It examines the ethical dilemmas faced by journalists in all areas of the media and sets our ways of achieving ethical journalism. Ethics and Journalism: - Explores such subjects as: private lives and the public interest, relations to sources and coverage of death, disease and destruction - Examines the role of regulation and self-regulation of the media industry - Discusses strategies of good journalism - Thoroughly examines the role of industry codes. Ethics and Journalism is informed by interviews with top journalists and editors and is written in a clear and accessible style. It includes an exhaustive bibliography as well as an excellent list of relevant web-sites. It will be essential reading for all journalism, media and politics students studying journalism and ethics, as well as for those who already work in the media and are interested in understanding ethical issues.
1 Ethics and journalism?
The reporting bestiary: Watchdogs, vultures and gadflys
The hack’s progress
Skills and knowledge
Why journalism matters
Journalism as story-telling
Comfortable bed-fellows
2 Thinking about ethics
What is ethics?
The Aristotelian tradition
Natural Law tradition
Humean sentiment
Kant and the categorical imperative
Bentham, Mill and Utilitarianism
Modern approaches
Objecting to ethics
Concluding thoughts
3 Virtue ethics
The temptations that journalists are heir to
Ethical approaches to journalism
Virtue ethics
The education of the emotions
Acting virtuously
Why act virtuously?
Key features of virtue ethics
Professional and occupational goals
4 Lying to tell a story
The value of truth
Truth and truthfulness
Lying and deception
Lying and the public interest
5 Faking it
Seeing and believing
Breaking trust
The mendacious medium
Restoring trust
6 Freedom’s scope
Understanding freedom
Freedom of expression
Freedom of the press
Avoiding harm
Freedom, truth and goodness
Undermining human dignity
Being free and responsible
7 Private lives and public interest
What is privacy?
Protecting privacy
Death in Paris
Making the private public
Private lives and public figures
Public interest and public good
8 Death, disease and destruction
Suffering, compassion and pity
Coverage of suffering
Death and disaster
Domestic tragedy
Picture power
‘Only connect’
9 Liaisons Dangereuses: reporters and sources
Reporters and sources
Trust and confidentiality
Types of sources
10 Conflicts of interest
Intentions and motives
Bribes, junkets and freebies
Financial journalism
Puffery and suppression
Personal views
11 The bottom line
Chasing the market
Concentrating ownership
The product’s integrity
The reporter’s integrity
‘Ethical efficiency’
12 Self-regulation and codes of conduct
Promoting ethical behaviour
Keeping the critics at bay
The Press Complaints Commission and its evolving code of practice
Global self-regulation and codes of practice
Generating ethical debate
13 Blaming the harlots
The limits of the letter of the law
Responsible and accountable
Social responsibility
Irresponsible journalism
Promoting accountability
14 The good journalist
Good journalism and journalists
Twenty-first century ethical challenges
Encouraging good journalists
Why be good?
Appendix 1 The Press Complaints Commission and the code of practice
Bibliography
Index
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