Standards, Policies, Best Practices, Ethical Standards in News Media

Media Roundup: Shirley Sherrod’s Firing and the Media

Georgia state official Shirley Sherrod was fired from her post as state director for rural development of the U.S. Department...

A recently released report, "Torture at Times: Waterboarding in the Media", studied the media's treatment of the word torture and...

LeBron James's July 8 hourlong program "The Decision" left many journalists wondering about the ethics of the program. In the LeBron Decision...

Rolling Stone's profile of Gen. Stanley McChrystal ("The Runaway General," June 22, 2010) has raised a number of journalism ethics questions,...

Were those quotes in Michael Hastings’ profile of Gen. Stanley McChrystal for Rolling Stone off the record? Rolling Stone executive...

Politico is being called out online by media writers for deleting a chunk of text from its June 22 blog...

The European Journalism Centre's editor, Howard Hudson, has proposed a European Code of Journalism Ethics. The draft was released May 3. The...

Bloggers questioned if Fox News removed 12 seconds of applause from the May 22 commencement speech Barack Obama gave at West Point....

When News of the World caught Sarah Ferguson on camera accepting money from "fake sheikh" Mazher Mahmoud for access to her ex-husband,...