PressEthic

I respect every woman’s right to choose children over a career but, refuse to see how women educated from the best colleges in America, pulling out of the work force at the peak of their careers can be viewed as a positive trend.

Articles must qualify as 'news' before they are awarded a front page spot.

With newspaper readingship slowly decling, it is the newsroom and its employees that are being hit where it hurts. No readers equals no jobs.

White collar crime is all the rage these days. From Ken Lay to Martha Stewart, we just love to talk about it. When are we going to do something though?

Football players being paid millions of dollars a year to throw a ball around need to shut up about the injustices of the world.

Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes make more money than you. But if you write about them, you might catch up.

If they only serve 8, is that enough?

Simon Weisenthal, who arguably did more than any other to bring former Nazis to account for the crimes against Jews and others during the Second World War, has died in Vienna aged 96 - what was his role?

Many of us could comfortably live the 9-5 job, but instead we pursue careers as foreign correspondents in wartorn regions of the world. Why do journalists gamble with their lives?

According to Wired, CNN is experimenting with a program hosted by Wolf Blitzer called "The Situation Room," which aims to present the news as, "Your world raw, unfiltered and live.' CNN claims it's evolving with the times. Is it sacrificing the truth to keep up with the ADD generation?

What's keeping some smaller newspapers ahead of the curve?

The news media have gotten much positive press for its coverage of Hurricane Katrina, and deservedly so. But Anderson Cooper and Brian Williams finally holding our leaders accountable doesn't excuse shabby reporting, such as the news that raping and killing were widespread. David Carr of the Times corrects the record, but will it do much good when the perception of over-the-top chaos and lawlessness is already solidified in the minds of most Americans?

Most of the pressures we think about include dealing with editors, making deadlines, and writing an interesting story. These are not minor concerns, but the recent reports out of Iraq make an everyday American journalist’s worries seem downright inconsequential.

Is the media doing harm or helping by purposely not printing pictures of celebrities lighting up? While children are spared the idea that smoking like celebrities will make them “cool“, is it really the magazine's responsibility to provide them with these false images?

A journalist working for the New York Times was killed today in Iraq. Should this death make journalists leave Iraq? Is it ethical to replace them by Iraqi journalists?