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12:00 AM  Mar. 15, 2009
Media Ethics Bibliography
By David Shedden (More articles by this author)
Library Director, Poynter Institute

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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.

Center for Religion, the Professions, and the Public
http://rpp.missouri.edu
The Center is located at the University of Missouri-Columbia.

EthicNet
http://www.uta.fi/ethicnet/
EthicNet is a collection of European codes of journalism ethics.

Ethics Connection
http://www.scu.edu/SCU/Centers/Ethics/
The website for the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University.

Ethics Guide for Public Radio Journalism
http://www.cpb.org/radio/ethicsguide/

Ethics in Journalism
http://www.spj.org/ethics.asp
The ethics section of the Society of Professional Journalists website.

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/

First Amendment Handbook
http://www.rcfp.org/handbook/viewpage.cgi
The Reporters Committee For Freedom of the Press posted this handbook on their website. 

Guide to Preferred Editorial Practices
(American Society of Business Publication Editors)
http://www.asbpe.org/about/code.htm

Institute for Global Ethics
http://www.globalethics.org/

Journal of Mass Media Ethics
http://www.jmme.org/
The journal's Web site includes article abstracts and information about the publication.

Journalism Ethics Cases Online
http://www.journalism.indiana.edu/Ethics/
These ethics cases come from the
Indiana University School of Journalism.

Journalism Ethics for the Global Citizen
http://www.journalismethics.ca/

"Local Readers and the Newsroom:
The Online Credibility Gap
." (APME Report, 2008)
http://www.apme.com/credibility/online/

Los Angeles Times Ethics Guidelines
http://poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=91088
Posted on Poynter Online, October 25, 2005

Media Ethics Division: AEJMC
http://jcomm.uoregon.edu/~tbivins/aejmc_ethics/home.html
The Media Ethics Division of AEJMC includes more than 300 scholars researching and teaching in the fields of mass communication ethics.

Media Watch
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/media/
The online site for "Media Watch"
from the PBS NewsHour television program.

Minnesota News Council
http://www.news-council.org/
The News Council provides a mechanism for the public to hold news outlets accountable.

NPPA Code of Ethics
http://www.nppa.org/professional_development/
business_practices/ethics.html

News University (Poynter/Knight Foundation)
http://www.newsu.org/

Online Ethics Wiki
http://www.onlineethicswiki.com

ONO: Organization of News Ombudsmen
http://www.newsombudsmen.org/

Post Register Newsroom Ethics
http://www.postregister.com/ethics/

Poynter Conference (August 2006)
Online Journalism Ethics: Guidelines from the Conference
http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=117350&sid=26

Poynter Resources about Anonymous Sources
http://poynter.org/column.asp?id=49&aid=64013

Poynter's Ethics Guidelines for Poynter Publishing
http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=58937

Poynter Online's Ethics Journal
http://poynteronline.org/column.asp?id=53

Poynter Online's Ethics Resources
http://poynteronline.org/subject.asp?id=32

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/pages/media_items/code-of-ethics-and-professional-conduct48.php
The ethics code for the
Radio-Television News Directors Association.

RTNDF Ethics Guidelines
http://www.rtnda.org/pages/best-practices/ethics.php?g=37
The Radio and Television News Directors Foundation's Journalism Ethics program compiled this web page.

RTNDF Ethics Project
http://www.rtnda.org/pages/best-practices/ethics.php?g=39

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.

Stinky Journalism.org
http://www.stinkyjournalism.org
Art Science Research Laboratory's Media Ethics Project

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 Conduct
http://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.


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