Journalism Ethics

What are the pros and cons of open-source journalism? When citizens create their own news, objective reportage can suffer. On the other hand, citizens may turn out to be more reliable and provide more points of view than regular media. What do you think?

Recently, at a2ethics.org, we have been trying to get a better understanding and awareness about errors, that is the mistakes, inaccurate statements and goofs we make in the process of writing our wide-ranging musings on things both ethical and unethical in the world around us. All in the interest and for the purposes of establishing a more concrete errors policy for this website, for civic ethicists on staff and visitors as well as for our organization.

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I created a Facebook group, you can visit it by clicking here. Within a few days, we got 60 or more members. Not bad, considering it's a new venture. It's called PressCore.

Last week, I returned to reality and to the nonstop news about the Great Recession, after escaping into the world of the late Stieg Larsson, author of  the crime thriller/mystery The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.

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The conventional news media has a strong bias, and editors keep fierce control over what news we recieve. But along with the institutionalization of the media comes a sense of ethics and standards. Despite the character of the news, and despite what candidates the paper endorses, the conventional news media still has a set of standards and truth-telling mechanisms.

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The entire newspaper industry is facing tough choices. The print edition is shrinking. The print edition is nothing but a big, clumsy link to the online edition. And soon, the online edition will have to do. It will be the only game in town. But the online edition of any paper has to compete for the attention of a lot of other better established and easier-to-navigate web-based news publications.

Originally submitted by: jadelay