Global Media Ethics

Stephen J. A. Ward is James E. Burgess Professor of Journalism Ethics in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In addition, he is Director of the school's Center for Journalism Ethics and its web site, http://ethics.journalism.wisc.edu. He is also the founding chair of the Ethics Advisory Committee of the Canadian Association of Journalists.  Ward is the author of the award-winning The Invention of Journalism Ethics: The Path to Objectivity and Beyond (2006), Ethics and the Media: An Introduction and Global Journalism Ethics (2011), and co-editor of Media Ethics Beyond Borders: A Global Perspective (2010).

“Global Media Ethics, which is, first and foremost, didactic, provides fodder to identify and discuss crucial issues that promise the growth of global media ethics.  These issues go beyond social scientific comparativism and philosophical moral realism.  They must be located within the tensions of philosophical particularism and ethical universalism.”  (Journal of Mass Media Ethics, 1 January 2014)"This excellent collection extends the emerging genre of global media ethics in several ways, but most prominently by underscoring that while the study of global media ethics is important, there is growing evidence there are few moral universals.  Summing Up: Highly recommended."  (Choice, 1 October  2013)

• Notes on Contributors ixIntroduction: Media Ethics as Global 1Stephen J. A. WardPart I Media Ethics Worldwide 111 Why Media Ethics Still Matters 13Nick Couldry2 Universals and Differences in Global Journalism Ethics 30Thomas Hanitzsch, Patrick Lee Plaisance, and Elizabeth A. Skewes3 The Role of the Journalist in Reporting International Conflicts 50Howard Tumber4 Global Journalism Networks: Funding and Ethical Hurdles 69Brant HoustonPart II Media and Diverse Public Spheres 875 Contextual Ethics and Arab Mass Media 89Ralph D. Berenger and Mustafa Taha6 From Journalism Ethics to an Ethics of Citizenship: Evidence from Colombia 110Hernando Rojas and Tim Macafee7 Media Ethics in a New Democracy: South African Perspectives on Freedom, Dignity, and Citizenship 126Herman Wasserman8 Democratization by Boilerplate: National Media, International Norms, and Sovereign Nation Building in Postwar Liberia 146Jo Ellen FairPart III Global Issues 1699 The Role of Global Media in Telling the Climate Change Story 171Sharon Dunwoody and Magda Konieczna10 Ethics of Global Disaster Reporting: Journalistic Witnessing and Objectivity 191Karin Wahl-Jorgensen and Mervi Pantti11 Affective Expertise: The Journalism Ethics of Celebrity Sourcing 214Katherine M. Bell12 Global Media Ethics, Justice, and Indian Journalism 235Shakuntala RaoPart IV Theoretical Foundations 25113 Global Media Ethics? Issues, Requirements, Challenges, Resolutions 253Charles M. Ess14 Global Ethics and the Problem of Relativism 272Clifford G. Christians15 Global Media Ethics: Utopian or Realistic? 295Stephen J. A. WardIndex 315