1st Edition
Media Accountability Who Will Watch the Watchdog in the Twitter Age?
1. Mocking the News: How The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Holds Traditional Broadcast News Accountable Chad Painter, University of Missouri School of Journalism, USA and Louis Hodges, Washington and Lee University, USA
2. Towards an Open Ethics: Implications of New Media Platforms for Global Ethics Discourse Stephen J.A. Ward, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA and Herman Wasserman, Rhodes University, South Africa
3. Recommendations for Hosting Audience Comments Based on Discourse Ethics Mark Cenite, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and Yu Zhang, Rutgers University, USA
4. Newsgathering and Privacy: Expanding Ethics Codes to Reflect Change in the Digital Media Age Ginny Whitehouse, Whitworth University, USA
5. Social Audits as Media Watchdogging Walter B. Jaehnig and Uche Onyebadi, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, USA
6. Ethical Implications of Anonymous Comments Posted to Online News Stories Laura Hlavach and William H. Freivogel, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, USA
7. The Ethics Examiner and Media Councils: Improving Ombudsmanship and News Councils for True Citizen Journalism Rick Kenney, Hampton University, USA and Kerem Ozkan, New College of Florida, USA
8. "I Am Eating a Sandwich Now": Intent and Foresight in the Twitter Age Stacy Elizabeth Stevenson, Kent State University, USA and Lee Anne Peck, University of Northern Colorado, USA
9. Ethics and Eloquence in Journalism: An Approach to Press Accountability Theodore L. Glasser and James S. Ettema
Biography
William A. Babcock is senior scholar/professor of media ethics at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, USA; deputy director of SIUC’s School of Journalism; and editor of Gateway Journalism Review. Dr. Babcock has worked at the Christian Science Monitor as senior international news editor and writing coach, directed the University of Minnesota’s Silha Center for the Study of Media Ethics and Law, and was founding chairman of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication’s Media Ethics Division.
