1st Edition
Making Hard Choices in Journalism Ethics Cases and Practice
1. Hard Cases in Journalism Ethics
2. The Role of Ethical Theory
3. The Paradigm Case as Ethical Standard
4. Using Case Comparisons to Make Ethical Choices
5. Evaluating Ethical Judgments
6. Causistry and Newsroom Policy
7. The Janie Blacksburg Case: Casuistry in Action
Biography
David E. Boeyink is Associate Professor of Journalism and Director of the Journalism Honors Program at Indiana University. His research on the ethics of decision-making in the newsroom is published in Journalism Quarterly, the Journal of Mass Media Ethics, and the Newspaper Research Journal.
Sandra L. Borden is Professor of Communication and Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Ethics in Society at Western Michigan University. She is author of Journalism as Practice: MacIntyre, Virtue Ethics and the Press (available in paperback from Routledge), winner of the 2008 Award for Top Book in Applied Ethics from the National Communication Association's Communication Ethics Division.
"One shouldn't skim Making Hard Choices in Journalism Ethics ... there is too much that would be missed in that way. [...] The book helps "walk you through" a number of cases that will tie theory, practice and goals together in such a way as to allow the reader to become thoroughly familiar with a much wider variety of common (and some uncommon) journalistic ethical problems that one might expect from the size and weight of this book."
--Media Ethics, Univ. of Illinois, Fall 2010 Volume 22, No.1
