Ethics of Journalism

Wendy Wyatt is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Communication and Journalism at the University of St Thomas, Minnesota. Her research interests include media ethics, press criticism and media literacy. She is the author of Critical Conversations: A Theory of Press Criticism, and co-editor (with Kris Bunton) of The Ethics of Reality TV.

• Introduction: Wendy Wyatt, University of St. ThomasPart I: Spheres of influence: fostering (or not) ethical journalism 1: The ethical newsroom: Where the individual and the collective work together Tony Harcup, University of Sheffield2: My newsroom made me do it: The impact of organisational climate on ethical decision making Lee Wilkins, University of Missouri3: How press ombudsmen help create ethical and responsible news organisations Carlos Maciá-Barber, University of Madrid4: The media and democracy: Using democratic theory in media ethics David S. Allen, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Elizabeth Blanks Hindman, Washington State University5: Do professionalism and ethics reduce pressure for legal accountability? Robert Drechsel, University of Wisconsin-Madison6: The ecology of journalism ethics: Theory and Cases David Pritchard, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee; Bastiaan Vanacker, Loyola University Chicago; Mireya Marquez, Universidad Iberoamericana and Dejan Jontes, University of LjubljanaPart II: Intersections: theory and practise 7: How do ethics and journalistic standards differ? Karen Slattery, Marquette University8: Does the language of journalism’s earliest ethics codes still speak to us today? Thomas H. Bivins, University of OregonPart III: Emerging issues in a global, digital age9: Can the ethics of the ‘Fourth Estate’ persevere in a global age? Ejvind Hansen, Danish School of Media and Journalism10: Knowledge-cantered newswork as an ethical framework for the online era Jan Lauren Boyles, American University; Yael de Haan & Annemarie Landman, University of Applied Science Utrecht11: Ethics in the age of the solitary journalist Wendy N. Wyatt and Tom Clasen, St. Thomas UniversityBibliography, Author Biographies, Acknowledgements

'This exceptionally well-conceived collection brings together some of the best media ethicists in the field, and succeeds at what few such volumes accomplish; examining journalism ethics in its real-world institutional and sociological context, while exploring and deepening the moral claims that give it stature and nobility as a normative discourse. The result is both sweeping and penetrating, a work of great value to academics and journalists alike.' Edward Wasserman, Dean, Graduate School of Journalism, University of California, Berkeley