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Should The Times be a truth vigilante?
The public editor of The New York Times asks for help from readers on determining how and when the newspaper should set the record straight on untruths in the news pages. Based on the response, Arthur Brisbane clarifies his position in an updated column and includes a note from Times Executive Editor Jill Abramson.
Letters give readers a chance to become involved
There is little that warms the cockles of a journalist’s heart more than reader responses to the things we publish. They prove that you are reading, are moved by what you see, and are willing to spend time telling us what you think.
What’s in a name? Depends on whether you use the tilde
It wasn’t the content of the article that brought criticism from a reader, but rather the spelling of the subject’s name.
Hacking away at the truth
This is the text of The Guardian editor’s Orwell lecture on journalism and the phone-hacking scandal, given at University College, London on Nov. 10, 2011.
Thank you for asking me to give this lecture.
I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t have become a journalist were it not for George Orwell. His collected Essays, Journalism and Letters appeared in a four volume Penguin edition in 1968, when I was about 15. I bought them one at a time with my saved pocket money … and read every word. And, with each essay and article, I learned more about politics; about observation; and about …
Press ethics: drawing the line
The ongoing phone-hacking scandal in the U.K. has brought the discussion about press ethics to the forefront once again.
The awareness of the BBC
The list of rules and standards that govern the journalistic work of the BBC represents several hours of reading. SInce 2005, David Jordan monitors compliance with these standards. Leading a team of 12 employees, Jordan is a member of the Management Committee of the BBC in addition to advising journalists, presenters and producers on a daily basis on issues of ethics and journalistic ethics. The former producer of current affairs attended this year’s annual ONO conference.
Letters give readers a chance to become involved
There is little that warms the cockles of a journalist’s heart more than reader responses to the things we publish. They prove that you are reading, are moved by what you see, and are willing to spend time telling us what you think.
Press ethics: drawing the line
The ongoing phone-hacking scandal in the U.K. has brought the discussion about press ethics to the forefront once again.
Source’s criminal history: a deciding factor in coverage?
Should a person’s criminal history be a factor when deciding whether to interview him or her for a story unrelated to the crime?
Hacking away at the truth
This is the text of The Guardian editor’s Orwell lecture on journalism and the phone-hacking scandal, given at University College, London on Nov. 10, 2011.
Thank you for asking me to give this lecture.
I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t have become a journalist were it not for George Orwell. His collected Essays, Journalism and Letters appeared in a four volume Penguin edition in 1968, when I was about 15. I bought them one at a time with my saved pocket money … and read every word. And, with each essay and article, I learned more about politics; about observation; and about …
ONO-president Jacob Mollerup’s address to The World Newspaper Congress and The World Editors Forum in Vienna
ONO-president Jacob Mollerup’s address to The World Newspaper Congress and The World Editors Forum in Vienna on October 15th, 2011. The 2011 World Newspaper Congress and The Worlds Editors Forum in Vienna had ethics on the programme – heavily influenced by the phone hacking scandal in the UK.
A joint session (moderated by professor Roy Greenslade from UK) asked the question “Profit, public interest, ethics – where to draw the line?”.
ONO-president Jacob Mollerup was the first panellist to give his thoughts. This is his opening remarks on where to draw the line:
“Before trying to answer …
Who stands for the public in Murdoch vs the government?
Editor’s introduction: In this essay, Geoffrey Robertson QC, who has extensive experience representing media companies and free speech cases, explores the role of the Leveson Inquiry, established by UK Prime Minister David Cameron in July to conduct a “judge-led inquiry into the culture, practices, and ethics of the press and the extent of unlawful or improper conduct within News International and other newspaper organisations.” Robertson places the inquiry in the historical context of media regulation in the UK. He casts a skeptical eye on the prospects for meaningful media, especially given the failures of past similar attempts and the low credibility of the UK’s Press Complaints Commission (PCC) in either protecting privacy or enforcing its ethical rulings.He then explores various proposed alternative structures to media regulation. Since the essay deals with UK-specific material, British grammar conventions have been preserved.
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