This wise set of precepts compiled by John Robinson, editor of the Greensboro, N.C., News & Record. didn’t get as much mileage in the blogosphere as they deserved when Robinson blogged them two weeks ago. (Thanks to Terry Heaton for the pointer.) So, here are the guidelines the News & Record have laid out for […]
Ethics
Influence and principles in the blogosphere
The Online Journalism Review has just posted my story about the ethics of bloggers and other key influencers receiving payments or freebies from commercial interests. (Note to OJR: try to start publishing stories in the morning rather than the late afternoon; you’ll get much more mileage.) The article — Influence peddling in the blogosphere. What […]
Fark’s unethical behavior
From Wired News today: Fark.com, one of the most popular blogs on the Net, has been accused of selling out — joining a growing list of new-media outfits willing to bend old-media rules. … Jason Calacanis, publisher of several rival Weblogs Inc. blogs, claims Fark offered him highly placed links to his sites in return […]
Ethics, magazines and advertorials
Just came across this interesting New York Times piece on Ethics, magazines and advertorials, which is already behind a pay firewall on the main nytimes.com site, though available through the College Times run by the paper’s circulation dept. Excerpt: Pick up a magazine on the newsstand, and chances are it will contain at least one […]
Photojournalism ethics during war
Peter Howe, who covered civil wars in Northern Ireland and El Salvador as a photojournalist and who wrote Shooting Under Fire: The World of the War Photographer, has an op-ed article in USA Today about the editorial choices involved in deciding which photos to publish in a newspaper to tell the story of the war. […]