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

Former BBC Journalist Michael Ford Discusses Ethics When BBC “Re-Records Material”

While addressing a student audience at the University of Lincoln (UK), former BBC Radio 4 presenter Dr. Michael Ford made...

As we discussed in an earlier post about National Public Radio coverage of White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, breaking style guidelines...

Mr. Rahm Emanuel, Rahm, Mr. Emanuel, Emanuel? Confused? So are we, after reading a November 18 article by NPR ombudsman...

New York Times story--“Afloat in the Ocean, Expanding Islands of Trash” by freelance writer Lindsey Hoshaw--looks like a normal Science...

We recently wrote about the ethical issues that arise when blog posts are replaced with a different version or removed...

Last week Jayson Blair, the New York Times reporter now famous for dramatic acts of plagiarism and falsification, spoke at...

In 1978, Anthony McKinney, then 18 years old, was sentenced to spend the rest of his natural life in prison...

On Thursday, September 24, 2009, 16-year-old Derrion Albert was beaten to death outside a community center in Chicago's Far South...

In his new book, The Ethical Journalist: Making Responsible Decisions in the Pursuit of News, former managing editor of the...