1st Edition
The Routledge Companion to Journalism Ethics
This volume provides a comprehensive discussion of enduring and emerging challenges to ethical journalism worldwide.
The collection highlights journalism practice that makes a positive contribution to people’s lives, investigates the link between institutional power and ethical practices in journalism, and explores the relationship between ethical standards and journalistic practice. Chapters in the volume represent three key commitments: (1) ensuring practice informed by theory, (2) providing professional guidance to journalists, and (3) offering an expanded worldview that examines journalism ethics beyond traditional boundaries and borders. With input from over 60 expert contributors, it offers a global perspective on journalism ethics and embraces ideas from well-known and emerging journalism scholars and practitioners from around the world.
The Routledge Companion to Journalism Ethics serves as a one-stop shop for journalism ethics scholars and students as well as industry practitioners and experts.
Chapter 45 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
List of contributors
Introduction
Lada Trifonova Price, Karen Sanders, and Wendy N. Wyatt
SECTION 1
The development of journalism ethics and perspectives from
around the world
1 Why ethics still matters
Karen Sanders
2 From parochial to global: the turbulent history of journalism ethics
Stephen J. A. Ward
3 From journalism ethics to communication ethics
Pieter J. Fourie
4 Becoming Junzi: a Confucian approach to journalism ethics
Yayu Feng
5 Journalism culture and ethical ideology
Thomas Hanitzsch
6 Revisiting the requirements of Hutchins: context and coverage in
the post-George Floyd world
Scott Libin
7 Treating "local" journalists ethically: international news
organizations and global media ethics
Lindsay Palmer
8 The case for global media ethics
Herman Wasserman
9 Slow journalism as ethical journalism?
Tony Harcup
10 An Islamic perspective on media ethics: revisiting Western
journalism ethics
Saadia Izzeldin Malik
11 I am because we are: a relational approach to journalism
Leyla Tavernaro-Haidarian
12 Journalism ethics and practice in enclave societies
Nakhi Mishol-Shauli and Oren Golan
13 "Tell China’s story well": ethical orientations of Chinese journalists
in international reporting
Tianbo Xu and Minyao Tang
14 Formal freedom but tacit control: journalism in Japan
Shinji Oi, Shinsuke Sako, and Masaki Naka
15 Ethical choices in Brazilian journalism: corruption, investigation,
and community media
Raquel Paiva and Alexandre Enrique Leitão
16 Visual ethics: a matter of survival
Julianne H. Newton
SECTION 2
Enduring issues in journalism ethics
PART I
Broad issues
17 The ethics of privacy and the public interest: from principle to application
Franz Krüger
18 Exploring key principles: neutrality, balance, objectivity, and truth
Richard Thomas
19 Professional autonomy in an age of corporate interests
Angela Phillips
20 The ethics of transparency
Stephanie Craft and Tim P. Vos
21 Journalism ethics and political satire
Chad Painter
22 "Ventriloquists’ dummies" or truth bringers? The journalist’s role in
giving whistle-blowers a voice
Paul Lashmar
23 Ethical approaches to reporting death and trauma affecting
ordinary people
Jackie Newton and Sallyanne Duncan
24 Islam in the news: a model for transformation
Jacqui Ewart and Kate O’Donnell
25 Ethics and reporting on religion: from public interest
to public good
Verica Rupar
26 Representing women: challenges for the UK media and beyond
Suzanne Franks and Katie Toms
PART II
Case studies on day-to-day practices
27 The ethics of reporting rape in India: a case study
Somava Pande
28 Suicide news items and the pornographization of death: a Turkish
case study
Elif Korap Özel and Şadiye Deniz
29 Journalism ethics and the political economy of zakazukha and
kompromat in Russia
Anna Klyueva
30 Echo chamber journalism: migration reporting in Hungary
Péter Bajomi-Lázár
31 Beyond the ethics of objectivity: covering the refugee crisis in Slovenia
Dejan Jontes
32 Media capture in Central and Eastern Europe: the corrosive impact
on democracy and desecration of journalistic ethics
William Horsley
33 Mapping ethical dilemmas for sports journalism: an overview of the
Spanish landscape
José Luis Rojas-Torrijos and Xavier Ramon-Vegas
SECTION 3
Emerging issues in journalism ethics
34 Ethical issues in data journalism
Bastiaan Vanacker
35 Ethical issues in large-scale journalistic investigations
Gillian Phillips
36 Journalists’ use of UGC and automated content: ethical issues
Ramón Salaverría
37 Algorithmic news: ethical implications of bias in artificial
intelligence in journalism
Kathleen Bartzen Culver and Xerxes Minocher
38 The moral mandate of virtual reality journalism
John V. Pavlik
39 Clickbait and banal news
David Harte
40 "BREAKING NEWS": sourcing, online newsgathering,
and verification
David A. Craig
41 The case for using informed consent in journalism
Bruce Gillespie
42 Ethical implications of the right to be forgotten
Ana Azurmendi
43 The influence of fake news: rebuilding public trust in journalism
Kati Tusinski Berg
44 Native advertising and the negotiation of autonomy, transparency,
and deception
Raul Ferrer-Conill, Michael Karlsson, and Elizabeth Van Couvering
45 Journalism ethics and its participatory turn
Tobias Eberwein
46 Facebook and the boundaries of professional journalism
Brett G. Johnson and Kimberly Kelling
SECTION 4
Standard setting
47 Press self-regulation in an international context
Susanne Fengler
48 Journalism codes of conduct and ethics as a form of media governance
Katharine Sarikakis and Lisa Winter
49 Responsible freedom: the democratic challenge of regulating
online media
Jessica Heesen
50 Setting limits and controlling the media for ethical journalism
Chris Frost
51 Organizational ethics: theories and evidence of the influence of
organizations on news content and the ethics of individual journalists
Renita Coleman and Hussain Alkhafaji
52 Where accountability is insufficient, bad journalism thrives: the case
of the United Kingdom press
Brian Cathcart
53 Media accountability and complaint handling in Spain
Dolors Palau-Sampio
54 Reminders of responsibility: journalism ethics codes in Western Europe
Epp Lauk
55 Masters in their own house: media self-regulation as a safeguard for
press freedom
Svein Brurås
56 Ethics codes in post-communist countries: the case of Bulgaria and
Romania
Lada Trifonova Price
57 The humble yet lofty goals of a journalism ethics course
Wendy N. Wyatt
Index
Biography
Lada Trifonova Price is a senior journalism lecturer in the Department of Media, Arts, and Communication at Sheffield Hallam University in the UK. She is a former journalist, and her current research focuses on media and journalistic practice in transitional democracies. She is a co-director of education at the Centre for Freedom of the Media, one of the leading non-profit organizations in the field of journalism safety. Some recent publications include original research articles on media corruption, chapters on impact of media censorship and self-censorship on journalism in post-communist countries, and analyses of the effects of democratization on the media landscape of Bulgaria and Romania.
Karen Sanders is a professor of communication and politics at St Mary’s University (London, UK). She has published widely on ethics, identity, and public communication and is the author of key texts such as Ethics and Journalism (2003) and Communicating Politics in the 21st Century (2008). She is a founding member of the journal Ethical Space and of the Association of Political Communication (ACOP). Previously professor in Madrid and Sheffield University, she lived for a time in Peru, resulting in the publication of an account of the intellectual foundations of the modern Peruvian state. Sanders has a special interest in understanding and fostering respectful communication in high‐risk organizations.
Wendy N. Wyatt is the vice provost for academic affairs and a professor of media ethics at the University of St. Thomas-Minnesota in the US. Her research focuses on issues of media and democracy, and she has particular interests in journalism ethics, citizen responsibilities to the media, and media literacy. Wyatt was part of the five-person editorial team that guided development of the Online News Association’s "Build Your Own Ethics Code" platform.
