Ethics in Journalism, 6th Edition

Part I: Principles and Guidelines.

1. The Search for Principles.

2. The Study of Ethics.

Part II: Telling the Truth.

3. Truth and objectivity.

4. Errors.

5. Transparency.

6. Faking the News.

Part III: Reporting the News.

7. Working with sources.

8. The Government Watch.

9. The shady world of unnamed sources.

10. Deception.

Part IV: Compassion and the Journalist.

11. Compassion, privacy and ordinary citizens.

12. Privacy for Political Leaders.

13. Compassion and Photographers.

Part V: Conflicts of Interest.

14. Journalists and Their Communities.

15. Freebies and Financial Concerns.

16. The Business of Journalism.

Cases to Discuss.

Index