12th Edition
Media Ethics Cases and Moral Reasoning
Introduction: Ethical Foundations and Perspectives
Part 1: News
1. Institutional Pressures
2. Truthtelling
3. Reporters and Sources
4. Social Justice
5. Privacy
Part 2: Persuasion in Advertising
6. Professional Culture
7. Advertising in an Image-Based Media Culture
8. The Media are Commercial
9. The Commercialization of Everyday Life
Part 3: Persuasion and Public Relations
10. Public Communication
11. Telling the Truth in Organizational Settings
12. Conflicting Loyalties
13. The Demands of Social Responsibility
Part 4: Entertainment
14. Violence
15. Profits, Wealth, and Public Trust
16. Media Scope and Depth
17. Censorship
Biography
Clifford G. Christians is Research Professor Emeritus of Communications, Professor Emeritus of Journalism, and Professor Emeritus of Media Studies at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA.
Mark Fackler is Professor Emeritus of Communications at Calvin College, USA.
Peggy J. Kreshel is Associate Professor Emeritus of Advertising at the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication and Affiliate Associate Professor Emeritus at the Institute for Women's Studies at the University of Georgia, USA.
William J. Brown is Professor and Research Fellow in the School of Communication and the Arts, College of Arts and Sciences, at Regent University, USA.
Yayu Feng is Assistant Professor in the Department of Emerging Media at the University of St. Thomas, USA.
Holly K. Overton is Associate Professor in the Bellisario College of Communications and Research Director of the Arthur W. Page Center for Integrity in Public Communication at the Pennsylvania State University, USA.
Kathy Brittain Richardson is President of Westminster College, Pennsylvania, USA. She is a former Provost and Professor of Communication at Berry College, USA.
