July 2015
Intermediate to advanced
304 pages
8h 22m
English
| CHAPTER 22 | |
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Ethics and the RTDNA Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct |
Ethics in journalism isn’t about a chapter stuck at the end of a book. If you go back (or remember back), you’ll find notes on ethical behavior in almost every chapter.
Inventing quotes and interviews, stealing (plagiarizing) columns, inadequate fact-checking, running PR-supplied video or stories as if they’re news … the list of print and broadcast news failures has been widely reported.
The toll on the public’s perception of journalism is incalculable. The notion that it might be necessary to tell people not to cheat or invent or plagiarize seems absurd. ...
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