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...

Journalism Ethics Summit Will Cover Reporting on Race and Gender

The event titled “Covering Race and Gender in the New Millennium” will begin at 2 p.m. Sept. 27 in Giffels Auditorium located in Old Main on the University of Arkansas campus. The panel will feature Jesse Holland, the visiting distinguished professor of journalism ethics; history chair, Calvin White, who is also affiliated faculty in African and African American studies; and Lisa Corrigan, director of gender studies. Christi Welter, of the Center for Ethics in Journalism, will moderate the panel.

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...