PressEthic

MSNBC and Forbes offer some shocking, insightful advice to job-hunters:

Don’t lie on your resume.

A lot of us are involved with various social and political groups and the issues they represent. Will this interfere with our work as journalists?

Ad Creep sure is getting out of control.

Good reporting is good reporting, just like good beer is good beer. It's so true, and yet so simple.

Village Voice now part of new oxymoron, the "national alternative newspaper chain"

"Newark Mayor Sharpe James and the city council have found a way to buy good news." - Jeffrey C. Mays

An overreaction on the part of Conde Nast? I vote yes.

White House lawyers request satirical newspaper, The Onion, to remove the Presidential seal from their website...

A white man's murder makes the front page of The Washington Post's metro section, and a black man's murder is hidden in the briefs. Should journalists expect readers to believe their intentions were pure?

Boring and stale though it begins to seem, the fact that the handling of the Jason Blair case is still discussed means that attention must be paid to Keller's memos to Times' staff published online recently

Reporting in Iraq is so difficult that Robert Fisk now resorts to, what he calls, "mouse journalism"

The Judy Miller affair has caused the USA to drop rapidly in the World Press Freedom Index. The ramifications of her imprisonment are a form of censorship on the media.

I know that this isn’t a new thing – papers have been choosing sides for years – but I never thought it was a fair practice.

Is there an ethical problem with publishing information that was sent unintentionally?

Neutrality and objectivity are not synonymous. Neutrality is a necessary precondition for the objective reporter, but not the end goal of a news story.