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We’d like to alert you to a new blog – Everyday Ethics — by Poynter’s Kelly McBride and colleagues. The column includes reports on ethical decision-making in newsrooms big and small, and will provide shorter, more frequently updated … Read more

The living will is a nice idea that isn’t working, says a report by the Hastings Center expected to be released Thursday afternoon. This news comes after thousands of people created such documents in order to avoid the fate of Terri Schiavo, … Read more

Sometimes I feel journalists work in a
reform-minded, ethical environment that seems as efficient at dealing
with ethical lapses as the French state was with political lapses
during its 18^th century revolution. In both cases,
transgressors faced immediate consequences. … Read more

The national debate over the fate of Terri Schiavo lays bare the ways we in America talk about our most important values. It is a cautionary tale for journalists faced with the challenge of framing issues fueled by fiercely held … Read more

The arrest of a suspect in the BTK serial murder case in Wichita, Kan., is shining a light on a common police beat practice – holding back.

In the 1970s, Cathy Henkel was a staff writer at the Wichita Sun, … Read more

Dr. Frank Ochberg remembers the first time he cut into a live human being. He was doing his surgical rotation as a medical student decades ago. He held the scalpel as his teacher placed a hand on top of his. … Read more

The American public thinks journalists are ethically challenged, according to a Gallup Poll. Yet another study shows journalists have highly developed abilities when it comes to moral reasoning. What gives?

First the studies. The American public doesn’t trust reporters. This … Read more

Sometimes, isolated news events are destined to become part of our national identity. I’m talking about stories so powerful and dramatic that they can be reduced to a word, usually a name, that conjures up an entire narrative.

Kitty Genovese, … Read more