Articles
Media Ethics
- Tangled Web
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- Editors meet to discuss how to hold ethics standards high in the face of sweeping changes in how newsrooms work
Jerry Cepos
- Why News Media Must Embrace Online Rules
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- Online news outlets face ethical challenges when they invite public commentary
Edward Wasserman
- Ethical Challenges Facing Newspapers
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- U.S. and Vietnamese editors discuss press freedom, government secrecy, and other issues.
Miriam Schulman
- Catchy Title or Needless Deception?
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- A journalist must decide when a promotion for a story is misleading.
Jessica Silliman
- Filtering and Pressure from Media Conglomerates
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- Pressure from above creates a pseudo-controversy.
Jessica Silliman
- Wrestling, Weight Loss and Exposing A Flawed System
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- Should a reporter include details in a story about how athletes exploit loopholes in a testing program?
Jessica Silliman
- Misplaced Funds Cloud Reputation: Is it worth it?
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- Reporting ruins the reputation of a respected local coach.
Jessica Silliman
- News and a Profit-Driven Turn to Advertising
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- Should news content be aligned with ad revenue?
Jessica Silliman
- Exploitive Tactics or Good Journalism?
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- How close up and personal should a reporter get to the scene of a tragedy?
Jessica Silliman
- Radio News: When to use a name?
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- A student makes a false allegation to police. Should the campus radio station reveal the students name?
Jessica Silliman
- Getting Personal: Private Lives and Public Figures
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- Is the mayors impending divorce a fit subject for a news story during a campaign?
Jessica Silliman
- Exposing The Pay of Public Safety Officials
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- Does the public have the right to know the salaries of police and firefighters?
Jessica Silliman
- Questionable Content: Editors and The Pressure of Falling Ad Revenue
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- A magazine editors job comes to include creating free advertisements for luxury products.
Jessica Silliman
- Breaking a StoryAnd a Relationship
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- Full reporting on a case of steroid abuse would have disastrous consequences for the reporters source.
Jessica Silliman
- Fair Play or Damaging The Reputation of Youth?
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- The father of a Little League player misstates his age so that he can play in the World Series. What is the reporters responsibility considering the boys youth?
Jessica Silliman
- To Use Photos or Not: Damaging Photos in An Online Age
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- Undergraduates put racist photos of themselves on Facebook. Should the student newspaper reprint them?
Jessica Silliman
- Creativity and The Race for Syndication
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- Economics of the TV industry mitigate against creative programming.
Jessica Silliman
- Leaked Movie Trailer and A Confidentiality Agreement
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- Confidentiality agreements prevent film industry employees from releasing information about upcoming releases.
Jessica Silliman
- Deceitful Movie Trailers or Good Advertising?
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- A producer must create an appealing trailer for a terrible movie.
Jessica Silliman
- To Exploit or Commemorate: Film and The Challenge of 9/11
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- How soon is too soon in making movies about disasters?
Jessica Silliman
- Using Borrowed Material
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- Using photographs published online creates ethical questions about copyright.
Jessica Silliman
- Reporting Inflated Numbers
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- A companys internal communications representative is asked to report inflated profit numbers.
Jessica Silliman
- Controversial Radio Advertising
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- A sales intern for a radio station is pressured to mislead advertisers.
Jessica Silliman
- Bad Business Ethics or Acceptable Promotional Perks?
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- A radio station inflates the number of on-air giveaways they ask companies to provide and then offers the excess as perks to station employees.
Jessica Silliman
- A Right or Wrong Way to Sell?
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- A contract sales rep is asked to circumvent the industrys chain-of-custody arrangements.
Jessica Silliman
- The Effects of Ethics Policies: A Positive Story
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- Doing the right thing brings praise.
Jessica Silliman
- Homeless at the Door: A Nonprofit Challenge
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- Should a homeless help center have strict hours?
Jessica Silliman
- Aggressive Sales Quotas or Unfair Business Practice?
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- An online directory chooses customer service over inflated advertising packages.
Jessica Silliman
- Public Relations: Is The Customer Always Right?
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- A client rigs a talent competition/publicity event.
Jessica Silliman
- Balancing Nonprofit Interests
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- Should an HIV/AIDS program focus on prevention or treatment?
Jessica Silliman
- Deceitful Spammer or Marketing Genius?
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- Is impersonation a viable marketing approach?
Jessica Silliman
- Client Obligations and Handling Your Boss
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- A boss forwards a draft e-mail to a client.
Jessica Silliman
- Trust During The Dot-Com Boom
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- A company woos a new employee under false pretenses.
Jessica Silliman
- Five Enduring Ethical Rules
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- H-P pretexting and government payment to journalists suggest the need for a reminder of ethical principles.
Jerry Ceppos
- To Publish or Not to Publish
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- Two views on the question, Should U.S. media show cartoons that have sparked Muslim protest?
Jerry Ceppos, Eric Hanson
- Ethics Experts for Media
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- A listing of Santa Clara University faculty and staff with expertise in ethics in a wide variety of fields.
- The decision to pursue and publish the Megan's Law story
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- What accountability was the newspaper willing to accept if the named sex offenders lost their jobs-or worse-as a result of publishing their names?
David Yarnold and Susan Goldberg
- The decision to give Armand Tiano's victims a voice
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- Should a newspaper print the names of victims of a sex offender at their request?
David Yarnold and Susan Goldberg
- The decision to stop printing the name and photo of the 9-year-old kidnapping victim
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- In a child abduction case, should a newspaper assume that the child is being sexually assaulted and not use a name or photograph?
David Yarnold and Susan Goldberg
- A Case for Truth
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- A public relations professional is asked to counsel the local Roman Catholic Archdiocese on how to respond to the sex abuse crisis.
Kirk O. Hanson
- Henry's Publick House
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- What are the ethical questions involved when the media broadcasts hostile situations live?
Thomas Shanks
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