journalism ethics

What are the ethical rules of online journalism?

July 5, 2009 by JD Lasica

How to separate good writers & publishers from frauds & con artists online

By Colin Brayton
Online Journalism Review

The ethics of online journalism are, ultimately, no different than the ethics of journalism. The Society of Professional Journalists has articulated a comprehensive policy of journalism ethics that can help guide any consciencious online writer.

That said, here are some basic qualities that any good online writer ought content ought to demonstrate:

No plagiarism

By now, you’ve likely discovered that writing is hard work. You certainly don’t want someone else swiping your effort and presenting it as his or her own.

So don’t steal others’ work.

Such theft is plagiarism. It includes not just cutting and pasting whole articles, but copying photos, graphics, video and even large text excerpts from others and putting them on your web page as well.

A scorecard for Net news ethics after 9/11

September 20, 2001 by JD Lasica

Despite a lapse related to the terrorist attack, online media deserve high marks

This column appeared Sept. 20, 2001, in the Online Journalism Review. Here’s the version on the OJR site.

Are journalism’s ethical rules of the road different in the online medium? This week, once again, the editor of an online publication received a powerful reminder that the answer is: Not really.

Rising Tide Studios, a small New York media company that publishes the Silicon Alley Daily and Digital Coast Daily e-mail newsletters (60,000 subscribers between them) and tech news sites, published a first-person account last Thursday by someone who visited the wreckage of the World Trade Center. [Read more…] about A scorecard for Net news ethics after 9/11

Ethics debate: It’s time to move on

March 12, 1999 by JD Lasica

Electronic commerce is here to stay – deal with it

This column appeared March 12, 1999, in the Online Journalism Review. Here’s the version on the OJR site.

The following column is based on remarks made by the author at the Online Journalism Conference held March 10, 1999, in Berkeley, co-sponsored by Graduate School of Journalism at UC Berkeley and the Annenberg School for Communication at USC. Lasica appeared on the panel “Reestablishing Credibility.”

Last year I appeared at this conference as a panelist addressing online ethics, so it was a little ironic that at the time I was employed by Microsoft.

Marvin Kalb on journalism in the Internet age

February 2, 1998 by JD Lasica

The former CBS and NBC News correspondent decries the news media’s feeding frenzy over Clinton-Lewinsky — and the effect that Matt Drudge has had on news coverage

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Marvin Kalb is director of the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He spoke by phone on Feb. 2, 1998, about 12 days after the White House sex scandal broke with a fury in the media.

How do you see the impact of the Internet and all the new forms of media on coverage of the Clinton-Lewinsky story. [Read more…] about Marvin Kalb on journalism in the Internet age

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