Ethics for Journalists

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Routledge, Oct 27, 2008 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 328 pages

Ethics for Journalists tackles many of the issues which journalists face in their everyday lives – from the media's supposed obsession with sex, sleaze and sensationalism, to issues of regulation and censorship. Its accessible style and question and answer approach highlights the relevance of ethical issues for everyone involved in journalism, both trainees and professionals, whether working in print, broadcast or new media.
Ethics for Journalists provides a comprehensive overview of ethical dilemmas and features interviews with a number of journalists, including the celebrated investigative reporter Phillip Knightley. Presenting a range of imaginative strategies for improving media standards and supported by a thorough bibliography and a wide ranging list of websites, Ethics for Journalists, second edition, considers many problematic subjects including:

  • representations of gender, race, sexual orientation, disability, mental health and suicide
  • ethics online – ‘citizen journalism’ and its challenges to ‘professionalism’
  • controversial calls for a privacy law to restrain the power of the press
  • journalistic techniques such as sourcing the news, doorstepping, deathknocks and the use of subterfuge
  • the handling of confidential sources and the dilemmas of war and peace reporting.
 

Contents

An overview
43
Dawdling in the last chance saloon?
67
Sourcing dilemmas
89
Privacy bugging surveillance and subterfuge
129
The tabloidisation controversy
159
7 Raceantiracism matters
174
Tackling issues over gender mental health suicide disability HIVAIDS and gayslesbians
199
The dilemmas of war and peace reporting and not just on the frontlines
228
10 Constraints on journalists and how to challenge them
256
some useful websites
289
Bibliography
292
Index
317
Copyright

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About the author (2008)

Richard Keeble is Professor of Journalism at Lincoln University. He is author of The Newspapers Handbook (4th edition, 2005), editor of Print Journalism: A Critical Introduction (2005) and co-editor of The Journalistic Imagination: Literary Journalists from Defoe to Capote and Carter (2007).

Bibliographic information

TitleEthics for Journalists
Media Skills
AuthorRichard Keeble
Edition2
PublisherRoutledge, 2008
ISBN1134085443, 9781134085446
Length328 pages
Subjects › 

Language Arts & Disciplines / Communication Studies
Language Arts & Disciplines / Journalism
Social Science / Media Studies
  
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