What We’re Reading This Week 6/25/19

What We’re Reading This Week 6/25/19

Six Florida newsrooms are teaming up to cover climate change which is a local story in the state as its residents are already feeling the effects of the heating planet.  The Nieman Lab conducted a study to see how people evaluate the credibility of photos they see...

Stories We’re Following 10/20

Journalists have donated money to both the Clinton and Trump campaigns, while the ethical codes at some news outlets prohibit employees from making donations to political organizations or campaigns, the Columbia Journalism Review reported. Poynter published an article...

Stories We’re Following 10/3/16

Poynter discussed the ethics of removing “embarrassing archived stories” from newspaper websites after learning several publications had been contacted by readers with requests for deletion. User reports led Facebook to suspend several Palestinian...

Five Ethics Stories We’re Following 9/15

Following a leak of medical records of three U.S. Olympians, an ethicist with Poynter wrote about how journalists should use the information. New research from Gallup shows America’s trust in the media is the lowest it’s ever been in Gallup’s polling...

Stories We’re Following 9/9/16

The Minneapolis Star-Tribune removed a column written by an employee which criticized a TV journalist for wearing skinny jeans during her report, Poynter reported. The Washington Post reminded employees of their Standards & Ethics policies on political activism...