Ethics & Trust

Poynter's Coverage of Ethics & Trust

In this combination image from left; Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich.; Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn.; Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-NY.; and Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass. In tweets Sunday, President Donald Trump portrays the lawmakers as foreign-born troublemakers who should "go back" to their home countries. In fact, the lawmakers, except one, were born in the United States. (AP Photo)

Journalism experts in ethics and diversity explain their reactions to President Trump’s ‘go back’ tweet

Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Tyreek Hill in 2018. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

A woman secretly taped an NFL player accused of child abuse. A TV station is taking heat for editing it.

Natalia Dyer as Nancy Wheeler in season three of "Stranger Things." (Photo courtesy of Netflix)

‘Stranger Things’ nails the ’80s — except for female journalists and small towns

Authorities stand behind yellow warning tape along the Rio Grande bank where the bodies of Salvadoran migrant Oscar Alberto Martínez Ramírez and his nearly 2-year-old daughter Valeria were found, in Matamoros, Mexico, Monday, June 24, 2019, after they drowned trying to cross the river to Brownsville, Texas. Martinez' wife, Tania told Mexican authorities she watched her husband and child disappear in the strong current. (AP Photo/Julia Le Duc)

Good editors must be thoughtful when showing readers hard truths, like photos of dead bodies

Family and friends watch as the casket of Virginia Beach shooting victim Katherine Nixon is wheeled to a hearse after a funeral service at St. Gregory The Great Catholic Church in Virginia Beach, Va., Thursday, June 6, 2019. Nixon was killed along with eleven others during a mass shooting last Friday. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

Not naming mass shooters (much) is now the norm

How journalism got here and where it goes next
"Jeopardy!" host Alex Trebek in 2018. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

In the rush to spoil the outcome of ‘Jeopardy!,’ slow down

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