Routledge Companion to Journalism Ethics

Lada Trifonova Price is a senior journalism lecturer in the Department of Media, Arts, and Communication at Sheffield Hallam University in the UK. She is a former journalist, and her current research focuses on media and journalistic practice in transitional democracies. She is a co-director of education at the Centre for Freedom of the Media, one of the leading non-profit organizations in the field of journalism safety. Some recent publications include original research articles on media corruption, chapters on impact of media censorship and self-censorship on journalism in post-communist countries, and analyses of the effects of democratization on the media landscape of Bulgaria and Romania. Karen Sanders is a professor of communication and politics at St Mary’s University (London, UK). She has published widely on ethics, identity, and public communication and is the author of key texts such as Ethics and Journalism (2003) and Communicating Politics in the 21st Century (2008). She is a founding member of the journal Ethical Space and of the Association of Political Communication (ACOP). Previously professor in Madrid and Sheffield University, she lived for a time in Peru, resulting in the publication of an account of the intellectual foundations of the modern Peruvian state. Sanders has a special interest in understanding and fostering respectful communication in high‐risk organizations.Wendy N. Wyatt is the vice provost for academic affairs and a professor of media ethics at the University of St. Thomas-Minnesota in the US. Her research focuses on issues of media and democracy, and she has particular interests in journalism ethics, citizen responsibilities to the media, and media literacy. Wyatt was part of the five-person editorial team that guided development of the Online News Association’s "Build Your Own Ethics Code" platform.

• List of contributors Introduction Lada Trifonova Price, Karen Sanders, and Wendy N. WyattSECTION 1The development of journalism ethics and perspectives fromaround the world 1 Why ethics still matters Karen Sanders2 From parochial to global: the turbulent history of journalism ethics Stephen J. A. Ward3 From journalism ethics to communication ethics Pieter J. Fourie4 Becoming Junzi: a Confucian approach to journalism ethics Yayu Feng5 Journalism culture and ethical ideology Thomas Hanitzsch6 Revisiting the requirements of Hutchins: context and coverage inthe post-George Floyd world Scott Libin7 Treating "local" journalists ethically: international newsorganizations and global media ethics Lindsay Palmer8 The case for global media ethics Herman Wasserman9 Slow journalism as ethical journalism? Tony Harcup10 An Islamic perspective on media ethics: revisiting Westernjournalism ethics Saadia Izzeldin Malik11 I am because we are: a relational approach to journalism Leyla Tavernaro-Haidarian12 Journalism ethics and practice in enclave societies Nakhi Mishol-Shauli and Oren Golan13 "Tell China’s story well": ethical orientations of Chinese journalistsin international reporting Tianbo Xu and Minyao Tang14 Formal freedom but tacit control: journalism in Japan Shinji Oi, Shinsuke Sako, and Masaki Naka15 Ethical choices in Brazilian journalism: corruption, investigation,and community media Raquel Paiva and Alexandre Enrique Leitão16 Visual ethics: a matter of survival Julianne H. NewtonSECTION 2Enduring issues in journalism ethics PART IBroad issues 17 The ethics of privacy and the public interest: from principle to application Franz Krüger18 Exploring key principles: neutrality, balance, objectivity, and truth Richard Thomas19 Professional autonomy in an age of corporate interests Angela Phillips20 The ethics of transparency Stephanie Craft and Tim P. Vos21 Journalism ethics and political satire Chad Painter22 "Ventriloquists’ dummies" or truth bringers? The journalist’s role ingiving whistle-blowers a voice Paul Lashmar23 Ethical approaches to reporting death and trauma affectingordinary people Jackie Newton and Sallyanne Duncan24 Islam in the news: a model for transformation Jacqui Ewart and Kate O’Donnell25 Ethics and reporting on religion: from public interestto public good Verica Rupar26 Representing women: challenges for the UK media and beyondSuzanne Franks and Katie TomsPART IICase studies on day-to-day practices 27 The ethics of reporting rape in India: a case study Somava Pande28 Suicide news items and the pornographization of death: a Turkishcase study Elif Korap Özel and Şadiye Deniz29 Journalism ethics and the political economy of zakazukha andkompromat in Russia Anna Klyueva30 Echo chamber journalism: migration reporting in Hungary Péter Bajomi-Lázár31 Beyond the ethics of objectivity: covering the refugee crisis in Slovenia Dejan Jontes32 Media capture in Central and Eastern Europe: the corrosive impacton democracy and desecration of journalistic ethicsWilliam Horsley33 Mapping ethical dilemmas for sports journalism: an overview of theSpanish landscape José Luis Rojas-Torrijos and Xavier Ramon-VegasSECTION 3Emerging issues in journalism ethics 34 Ethical issues in data journalism Bastiaan Vanacker35 Ethical issues in large-scale journalistic investigations Gillian Phillips36 Journalists’ use of UGC and automated content: ethical issues Ramón Salaverría37 Algorithmic news: ethical implications of bias in artificialintelligence in journalism Kathleen Bartzen Culver and Xerxes Minocher38 The moral mandate of virtual reality journalism John V. Pavlik39 Clickbait and banal news David Harte40 "BREAKING NEWS": sourcing, online newsgathering,and verification David A. Craig41 The case for using informed consent in journalism Bruce Gillespie42 Ethical implications of the right to be forgotten Ana Azurmendi43 The influence of fake news: rebuilding public trust in journalism Kati Tusinski Berg44 Native advertising and the negotiation of autonomy, transparency,and deception Raul Ferrer-Conill, Michael Karlsson, and Elizabeth Van Couvering45 Journalism ethics and its participatory turn Tobias Eberwein46 Facebook and the boundaries of professional journalism Brett G. Johnson and Kimberly KellingSECTION 4Standard setting 47 Press self-regulation in an international context Susanne Fengler48 Journalism codes of conduct and ethics as a form of media governance Katharine Sarikakis and Lisa Winter49 Responsible freedom: the democratic challenge of regulatingonline media Jessica Heesen50 Setting limits and controlling the media for ethical journalism Chris Frost51 Organizational ethics: theories and evidence of the influence oforganizations on news content and the ethics of individual journalists Renita Coleman and Hussain Alkhafaji52 Where accountability is insufficient, bad journalism thrives: the caseof the United Kingdom press Brian Cathcart53 Media accountability and complaint handling in Spain Dolors Palau-Sampio54 Reminders of responsibility: journalism ethics codes in Western EuropeEpp Lauk55 Masters in their own house: media self-regulation as a safeguard forpress freedomSvein Brurås56 Ethics codes in post-communist countries: the case of Bulgaria andRomania Lada Trifonova Price57 The humble yet lofty goals of a journalism ethics courseWendy N. 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