Stories We’re Following 3/27/17

Benny Johnson, a reporter with the Independent Journalism Review, was accused of plagiarism by fellow staffers in 2015, just one year after being fired from Buzzfeed for 41 instances of plagiarism, Poynter reported. Additionally, Poynter reported, “Johnson,...

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...

4 Ethics Stories We’re Following

Poynter reported on NBC’s plan to provide balanced news coverage of Rio, despite network coverage of the Olympics. The Columbia Journalism Review shared the story of a reporter on assignment for NPR arrested while reporting on protests in Baton Rouge. Poynter...