This title is a reminder, a defense and an elucidation of core journalistic values, with particular emphasis on the interplay of theory, conceptual analysis and practice. Top scholars from philosophy, journalism and communications offer essays on such topics as objectivity, privacy, confidentiality, conflict of interest, and much more.
Pt. 1. Theoretical and conceptual foundations -- Ethics theory and decision making -- An explanation and a method for the ethics of journalism / Deni Elliott and David Ozar -- Moral development and journalism / Renita Coleman -- History and justification -- Press freedom and responsibility / Stephanie Craft -- The moral justification for journalism / Sandra L. Borden -- The search for global media ethics / Herman Wasserman -- What is journalism? Who is a journalist? -- Why journalism is a profession / Michael Davis -- Who is a journalist? / Jay Black -- Norms and the network : journalistic ethics in a shared media space / Jane B. Singer -- Objectivity -- Inventing objectivity : new philosophical foundations / Stephen J.A. Ward -- Is objective news possible? / Carrie Figdor -- Pt. 2. The practice of journalism -- The business of journalism -- Journalism's tangled web : business, ethics, and professional practice / Ian Richards -- The decline of the news business / Rick Edmonds -- Covering a world that's falling apart, when yours is too / Marty Steffens -- Privacy -- The ethics of privacy / Clifford G. Christians -- Understanding and respecting privacy / Candace Cummins Gauthier -- Approaching the news : reporters and consumers -- Conflicting loyalties and personal choices / Jacqui Banaszynski -- A robust future for conflict of interest / Edward Wasserman -- Respecting sources' confidentiality : critical but not absolute / Aaron Quinn -- The ethical obligations of news consumers / Wendy N. Wyatt -- Getting the story -- The ethos of "getting the story" / Patrick Lee Plaisance -- Mitigation watchdogs : the ethical foundation for a journalist's role / Lee Wilkins -- Image ethics -- Visual ethics : an integrative approach to ethical practice in visual journalism / Julianne H. Newton and Rick Williams -- Ethics and images : five major concerns / Paul Martin Lester.