Are we people or journalists first?
As a journalism student, ethics are drilled in your brain from the first day you sit in JMC 110. Dean Gilger rattles them off quickly and often. This school is …
Are we people or journalists first? Read More‘To each his own’ – can Journalism afford such value proposition?
Ethics like religion, food and recreation is largely a matter of personal choice. While some values are universal, each individual has a different threshold of how much he or she …
‘To each his own’ – can Journalism afford such value proposition? Read MoreWhat Inspires My Ethics
Bernhard Lang/ Getty Images By Kazi Mohua I first came along with the term of ‘Ethics Code’ from my sister. After she joined the military, she used to tell …
What Inspires My Ethics Read MoreMy Personal Code of Ethics – From the View of Social Sciences
As a psychology major who takes journalism courses, I ponder on the differences between a social scientist and a journalist. When it comes to a personal code of ethics, I …
My Personal Code of Ethics – From the View of Social Sciences Read MoreThe ethics of illuminating misery
In The Year of Living Dangerously, the dwarf photographer – Billy Kwan as portrayed by Linda Hunt – offers the following advice: “Don’t think about the major issues. You do what …
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Three Simples Rules That Guide a Journalist
A journalist’s code of ethics should be reduced to the same values that define you as a person, as a character. These are the main principles that I am trying …
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Ethics: Honesty and the importance of trust
I will always remember the moment my mother caught me in a lie and, with a solemn expression, she soul-crushingly quoted Friedrich Nietzsche to me, saying: “I’m not upset that …
Ethics: Honesty and the importance of trust Read MoreLiving above reproach like Caesar’s wife
By Paul Udoto Nyongesa “Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.” The above quote by Clive Staples Lewis, …
Living above reproach like Caesar’s wife Read MoreEthics in journalism: How to fight bias?
Being a journalist today is harder than ever. Attacked from all sides by the politicians and feeling the economic burden of a usually struggling media we work in, …
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Today´s biggest ethic challenge
Why is ethics so important in journalism? The key word here is trust. As a journalist, that trust you earn from the audience is all you can count on. It´s …
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