by rmccargo | Feb 17, 2020 | Trending Topics
U of A students, faculty and staff will soon receive subscriptions for full access to The New York Times website, thanks to the Associated Student Government’s Student Program Allocations Board that voted to fund the project. The subscriptions will work through...
by cwelter | Jun 24, 2017 | Ethics in the News
A Wall Street Journal foreign affairs correspondent was fired for his business involvement with a source, Poynter reported. Educators are teaching students how to detect false news using an online platform called Checkology, according to an article published by Wired....
by cwelter | Apr 12, 2017 | Ethics in the News
According to Poynter, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga emails obtained through open records laws show university officials fired an NPR-affiliated reporter because they “were worried that annoyed Republican legislators — who had previously cut funding to a...
by cwelter | Nov 16, 2016 | Ethics in the News
In reference to coverage of President-elect Donald Trump, an article from the Columbia Journalism Review examined how “reporters’ personal views got in the way of their ability to hear what was happening around them.” An ethicist from Poynter discussed how...
by cwelter | Sep 15, 2016 | Ethics in the News
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...