ONLINE RESOURCES
ASNE Ethics Codes Collection
http://www.asne.org/ideas/codes/codes.htm
APME National Credibility Roundtables Project
http://www.apme-credibility.org
Can You Improve Your Code of Ethics?
http://www.asne.org/kiosk/editor/99.feb/steele1.htm
By Bob Steele and Jay Black.
The American Editor, February 1999.
Ethics in Public Broadcasting
http://www.current.org/ethics/
From the Current Online website.
FAIR: Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting
http://www.fair.org/
Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting is a national media watch group.
First Amendment Center
http://www.fac.org/
Poynter Online's Ethics Tip Sheets
http://poynteronline.org/content/content_view.asp?id=31889
Poynter Online's Everyday Ethics
http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=67
Poynter Online's First Amendment/FOI Bibliography
http://poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=77627
Poynter Online's Guide to Accuracy
http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=36518
Poynter Online's Talk about Ethics
http://poynteronline.org/column.asp?id=36
RTNDA Code of Ethics
http://www.rtnda.org/ethics/coe.shtml
The ethics code for the
Radio-Television News Directors Association.
RTNDF Ethics Guidelines
http://www.rtnda.org/ethics/ethicsguidelines.shtml
The Radio and Television News Directors Foundation's Journalism Ethics program compiled this web page.
RTNDF Ethics Project
http://www.rtnda.org/ethics/fepcg.shtml
Regret the Error
http://www.regrettheerror.com/
Silha Center for the Study of Media Ethics and Law
http://www.silha.umn.edu/
The Center was established in 1984 within the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Minnesota.
USA Today Report on the investigation
of former USA Today reporter Jack Kelley (April 2004)
http://www.usatoday.com/news/index-main.htm
Washington News Council
http://www.wanewscouncil.org/
"An independent, nonprofit, statewide organization whose members share a common belief that fair, accurate and balanced news media are vital to our democracy."
The Washington Post's Policies on Sources,
Quotations, Attribution, and Datelines
http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=53&aid=61244
Posted on Poynter Online, February 2004.
Web Resources for Studying Journalism Ethics
http://www2.hawaii.edu/~tbrislin/ethics/index.html
Compiled by Tom Brislin, Department of Journalism, University of Hawaii.
World Wide Codes of Conducthttp://www.presswise.org.uk/display_page.php?id=40
This list was compiled by PressWise.
BOOKS Arant, David, ed.
Perspectives:
Ethics, Issues and Controversies in Mass Media. St. Paul, MN: Coursewise Publishing, 1999.
Atkins, Joseph B., ed. The Mission: Journalism, Ethics,
and the World: International Topics in Media.
Ames: Iowa State University Press, 2002.
Berkman, Robert I. and Christopher A. Shumway.
Digital Dilemmas: Ethical Issues for Online Media Professionals.
Ames: Iowa State Press, 2003.
Berry, David, ed. Ethics and Media Culture.
Woburn, MA: Focal Press, 2000.
Bertrand, Claude-Jean. An Arsenal for Democracy:
Media Accountability Systems.
Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 2003.
[Originally publ. in French (Economica, 1999), translated in Brazil (2002), Japan (2002)]
----. Media Ethics and Accountability Systems.
New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2000.
Black, Jay. Mixed News.
Mahwah, NJ: L. Erlbaum Associates, 1997.
Bovee, Warren G. Discovering Journalism.
Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1999.
Bugeja, Michael J. Living Ethics: Across Media Platforms.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.
Christians, Clifford G. Good News.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
Christians, Clifford G., et al.
Media Ethics: Cases and Moral Reasoning. 7th ed.
Boston: Allyn & Bacon, 2004.
Clark, Roy Peter and Cole C. Campbell, eds.
The Values and Craft of American Journalism.
Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2002.
Cohen, Elliot D. and Deni Elliott, eds.
Journalism Ethics: A Reference Handbook.
Santa Barbara, CA: Abc-Clio, 1998.
Craig, David. The Ethics of the Story:
Using Narrative Techniques Responsibly in Journalism.
Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006.
Day, Louis A. Ethics in Media Communications, 4th ed.
Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 2003.
De Vries, Paul, et al. Ethics Applied.
Boston: Pearson Education, 2000.
Downie, Jr. Leonard and Robert G. Kaiser.
The News About the News.
New York: Knopf, 2002.
Fallows, James. Breaking the News:
How the Media Undermine American Democracy.
New York: Pantheon, 1996.
Freeman, Karen L. and Steven R. Knowlton.
Fair & Balanced: A History of Journalistic Objectivity.
Northport, AL: Vision Press, 2005.
Friend, Cecilia and Jane B. Singer.
Online Journalism Ethics: Traditions and Transitions.
Armonk, New York: M.E. Sharpe, 2007.
Fuller, Jack. News Values: Ideas for an Information Age.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.
Giles, Robert and Robert W. Snyder, eds.
What's Fair?: The Problem of Equity in Journalism.
New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2000.
Goldstein, Tom and Howard H. Baker.
Journalism and Truth: Strange Bedfellows.
Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2007.
Good, Howard. Desperately Seeking Ethics.
Lanham, MD: Scarecrow, 2003.
Good, Howard and Michael Dillon.
Media Ethics Goes to the Movies.
Westport, CT: Praeger, 2002.
Goodwin, H. Eugene, Ron F. Smith, Gene Goodwin.
Groping for Ethics in Journalism.
Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1999.
Gordon, A. David, et al. Controversies in Media Ethics.
White Plains, NY: Longman Publishers, 1999.
Gross, Larry, John Stuart Katz and Jay Ruby, eds.
Image Ethics in the Digital Age.
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003.
Hausman, Carl. Crisis of Conscience:
Perspectives on Journalism Ethics.
New York: Harper Collins, 1992.
Herbert, John. Journalism and Broadcast Ethics.
Woburn, MA: Focal Press, 2002.
Iggers, Jeremy. Good News, Bad News:
Journalism Ethics and the Public Interest.
Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1998.
Keeble, Richard. Ethics for Journalists.
New York: Routledge, 2001.
Kennedy, George and Daryl R. Moen.
What Good is Journalism? How Reporters and Editors are
Saving America's Way of Life.
Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2007.
Knowlton, Steven R. Moral Reasoning for Journalists.
Westport, CT: Praeger, 1997.
Knowlton, Steven R. and Patrick R. Parsons, eds.
The Journalist's Moral Compass.
Westport, CT: Praeger, 1995.
Kovach, Bill and Tom Rosenstiel. The Elements of Journalism:
What Newspeople Should Know and the Public Should Expect., 2nd ed.
New York: Three Rivers Press, 2007.
LaMay, Craig L. Journalism and the Debate over Privacy.
Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2003.
Lambeth, Edmund. Committed Journalism:
An Ethic for the Profession.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992.
Land, Mitchell and Bill W. Hornaday.
Contemporary Media Ethics.
Spokand, WA: Marquette Books, 2006.
Lee, M. and N. Solomon. Unreliable Sources:
A Guide to Detecting Bias in News Media.
New York: Carol Publishing Group, 1990.
Leslie, Larry Z. Mass Communication Ethics:
Decision Making in Postmodern Culture.
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 2000.
Lester, Paul Martin. Images That Injure:
Pictorial Stereotypes in the Media.
Westport, CT: Praeger, 1996.
----. Photojournalism: An Ethical Approach.
Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1991.
Limburg, Val E. Electronic Media Ethics.
Boston: Focal Press, 1994.
MacDonald, Barrie and Michel Petheram.
Keyguide to Information Sources in Media Ethics.
London: Mansell Publishing, 1998.
Matelski, Marilyn J. TV News Ethics.
Boston: Focal Press, 1991.
Merrill, John C. Journalism Ethics:
Philosophical Foundations for News Media.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997.
Moore, Roy L. Mass Communication Law and Ethics.
Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1999.
Patterson, Philip and Lee Wilkins, 4th ed.
Media Ethics: Issues and Cases.
Boston, MA: McGraw Hill, 2002.
Pritchard, David, ed. Holding the Media Accountable:
Citizens, Ethics, and the Law.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000.
Richards, Ian. Quagmires and Quandaries:
Exploring Journalism Ethics.
Sydney, Australia: University of New South Wales Press, 2005.
Rosenstiel, Thomas and Amy Mitchell.
Thinking Clearly: Cases in Journalistic Decision-Making.
New York: Columbia University Press, 2003.
Russell, Nick. Morals and the Media: Ethics in Canadian Journalism.
Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1994.
Sanders, Karen. Ethics & Journalism.
London: Sage Publications, 2003.
Seib, Philip. Campaigns and Conscience:
The Ethics of Political Journalism.
Westport, CT: Praeger, 1994.
Seib, Philip and Kathy Fitzpatrick. Journalism Ethics.
Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace, 1997.
Silcock, B. William, Don Heider and Mary T. Rogus.
Managing Television News: A Handbook for Ethical and Effective Producing.
Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2007.
Simpson, Roger and William Cote.
Covering Violence. 2nd edition.
New York: Columbia University Press, 2006.
Sloan, William David and Jenn Burleson Mackay.
Media Bias: Finding It, Fixing It.
Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 2007.
Smith, Ron R. Groping for Ethics in Journalism.
Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1999.
Underwood, Doug. From Yahweh to Yahoo!:
The Religious Roots of the Secular Press.
Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2002.
Weaver, Paul H. News and the Culture of Lying:
How Journalism Really Works.
New York: The Free Press, 1995.
Wheeler, Tom. Phototruth or Photofiction?
Manwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2002.
Wilkins, Lee.
The Moral Media: How Journalists Reason about Ethics.
Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2005.
