Tuesday, November 22, 2005
The Newsroom Insider
By Andrew Johnson
The Marquette Tribune (Marquette University, Milwaukee)
Published: 11/22/05
Excerpt:
Having regular ethical discussions in an open environment
is one way news organizations can ensure that they exhaust all the
options at their disposal, according to Kelly McBride, an
ethics group leader at the Poynter Institute, a journalism school in
St. Petersburg, Fla., that provides training and resources to the news
media.
"The more newsrooms do that, even on the little stories, the better the
staff becomes at handling the big crisis -- the story that really does
have to go in the paper on deadline," McBride said.
In our own discussions, we debated whether we could trust the
information being given to us and other ways we could verify the
information.
Letting readers know how news organizations make ethical decisions is
important, McBride said, because it "trains the reader to consume news
that is responsibly gathered."
"If (readers) become accustomed to being privy to newsroom discussions,
they will train a weary eye on newsrooms that are secretive -- that
don't reveal what the internal workings are, and they'll also come to
demand it of their news providers," she said.
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