by cwelter | May 2, 2017 | Ethics in the News
Facebook hired former New York Times staffer Alex Hardiman in a new position called head of news products. According to Recode, “Hardiman will work with publishers to create news features, and also try to stop the proliferation of false news on the...
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 | Mar 27, 2017 | Ethics in the News
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,...
by cwelter | Feb 22, 2017 | Ethics in the News
The New York Times Public Editor Liz Spayd discussed the advantages and disadvantages of using anonymous sources, particularly in relation to political reporting. An article from the New York Times discussed how the rising use of technology for reporting has begun to...
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...
