PressEthic

Don't worry about the decreasing number of embedded journalists in Iraq, they're putting more of us in the depths of muckracking journalism territory: virtual reality.

The news networks are paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to celebrity and famous criminal subjects in exchange for exclusive interviews and personal video footage. How much is their ethical integrity worth?

The Poynter Institute gathered 25 professionals to start asking the tough ethical questions about online journalism and blogging. They came up with more questions than answers, but presented important issues for internet reporters.

Believe it or not, adore it or scorn it, the most influential and successful cable news channel made its debut on Oct. 7, 1996. Fox News Channel will be raising their whiskey tumblers and anti-abortion bills this week, "celebrating a decade of fair and balanced news" and um, a ratings slump.

Iraq is worse than the Bush administration is willing to admit, Woodward says in his new book.

A recent survey by Research 2000 found that conservative talk radio hosts were less willing to take calls from dissenting listeners than progressive pundits.

Each year, especially during election season, hundreds of political polls are conducted by universities, think tanks, pollsters and news organizations. Some ask the same question, but come up with different results. How does a news organization choose which one to report? Or are they on shakey ethical ground if they don't report on all results?

After firing three journalists from their sister paper last week, Miami Herald's publisher clarifies the paper's ethics in a Sunday editorial.

After watching their stock take a nosedive earlier this summer, the higher-ups at the Tribune Company are asking LA Times editor Dean P. Baquet to cut more jobs. But Baquet isn't toeing the line. In fact, he's stomping all over it.

It has long been a contention that the journalists need to pay more attention to the religion beat. The media, perhaps squeamish of other-worldly moral messages, missed the boat on covering how faith factored into the 2004 election. The issue resurfaced at the Religion Newswriters Association annual conference held this past Friday.

The image of the reporter as a lunging government watchdog is whimpering once again. The Miami Herald reported today that ten journalists received regular payments, ranging from $1,550 to $174,753 since 2001, from a U.S. government agency.