Foreword by Clifford G. Christians
Preface
Acknowledgments
1
An Introduction to Ethical Decision Making
Essay
Cases and moral systems
Deni Elliott
Case 1-A
How to read a case study
Philip Patterson
2
Information Ethics: A Profession Seeks the Truth
Case 2-A
Anonymous or confidential? Unnamed sources in the news
Lee Wilkins
Case 2-B
Death as content: Social responsibility and the documentary filmmaker
Tanner Hawkins
Case 2-C
News and the transparency standard
Lee Wilkins
Case 2-D
Can I quote me on that?
Chad Painter
Case 2-E
NPR, The New York Times and working conditions in China
Lee Wilkins
Case 2-F
When is objective reporting irresponsible reporting?
Theodore Glasser
Case 2-G
Is it news yet?
Michelle Peltier
Case 2-H
What’s yours is mine: The ethics of news aggregation
Chad Painter
3
Strategic Communication: Does Client Advocate mean Consumer Adversary?
Case 3-A
Weedvertising
Lee Wilkins
Case 3-B
Cleaning up their act: The Chipotle food safety crisis
Kayla McLaughlin and Kelly Vibber
Case 3-C
Keeping Up with the Kardashians prescription drug choices
Tara Walker
Case 3-D
Between a (Kid) Rock and a hard place
Molly Shor
Case 3-E
Was that an Apple computer I saw? Product placement in the U.S. and abroad
Philip Patterson
Case 3-F
Sponsorships, sins and PR: What are the boundaries?
Lauren Bacon Brengarth
Case 3-G
A charity drops the ball
Philip Patterson
4
Loyalty: Choosing Between Competing Allegiances
Case 4-A
Fair or foul? Reporter/Player relationships in the sports beat
Lauren A. Waugh
Case 4-B
To watch or to Report: What journalists were thinking in the midst of disaster
Lee Wilkins
Case 4-C
Public/on-air journalist vs. private/online life: Can it work?
Madison Hagood
Case 4-D
When you are the story: Sexual harassment in the newsroom
Lee Wilkins
Case 4-E
Whose Facebook page is it anyway?
Amy Simons
Case 4-F
Where everybody knows your name: Reporting and relationships in a small market
Ginny Whitehouse
Case 4-G
Quit, blow the whistle, or go with the flow?
Robert Wakefield
Case 4-H
How one tweet ruined a life
Philip Patterson
5
Privacy: Looking for Solitude in the Global Village
Case 5-A
Drones and the news
Kathleen Bartzen Culver
Case 5-B
Concussion bounty: Is trust ever worth violating?
Lee Wilkins
Case 5-C
Joe Mixon: How do we report on domestic violence in sports?
Brett Deever
Case 5-D
Looking for Richard Simmons
Lee Wilkins
Case 5-E
Children and framing: The use of children’s images in an anti-same-sex marriage ad
Yang Liu
Case 5-F
Mayor Jim West’s computer
Ginny Whitehouse
Case 5-G
Politics and money: What’s private and what’s not
Lee Wilkins
6
Mass Media in a Democratic Society: Keeping a Promise
Case 6-A
Reporting on rumors: When should a news organization debunk?
Lee Wilkins
Case 6-B
Doxxer, Doxxer, give me the news?
Mark Anthony Poepsel
Case 6-C
The truth about the facts: Politifact.com
Lee Wilkins
Case 6-D
WikiLeaks
Lee Wilkins
Case 6-E
“Control Room”: Do culture and history matter in reporting the news?
Lee Wilkins
Case 6-F
Victims and the press
Robert Logan
Case 6-G
For God and Country: The media and national security
Jeremy Littau and Mark Slagle
7
Media Economics: The Deadline Meets the Bottom Line
Case 7-A
Murdoch’s mess
Lee Wilkins
Case 7-B
Who controls the local news? Sinclair Broadcasting Group and “must-runs”
Keena Neal
Case 7-C
Automated journalism: The rise of robot reporters
Chad Painter
Case 7-D
Conflicted interests, contested terrain: The New York Times Code of Ethics
Lee Wilkins and Bonnie Brennan
Case 7-E
Transparency in fundraising: The Corporation for Public Broadcasting standard
Lee Wilkins
Case 7-F
News now, facts later
Lee Wilkins
Case 7-G
Crossing the line? The L.A. Times and the Staples affair
Philip Patterson and Meredith Bradford
8
Picture This: The Ethics of Photo and Video Journalism
Case 8-A
Killing a journalist on-air: A means/ends test
Mitchel Allen
Case 8-B
Remember My Fame: Digital Necromancy and the Immortal Celebrity
Samantha Most
Case 8-C
Problem photos and public outcry
Jon Roosenraad
Case 8-D
Above the fold: Balancing newsworthy photos with community standards
Jim Godbold and Janelle Hartman
Case 8-E
Horror in Soweto
Sue O’Brien
Case 8-F
Photographing funerals of fallen soldiers
Philip Patterson
9
Informing a Just Society
Case 9-A
“Spotlight”: It takes a village to abuse a child
Lee Wilkins
Case 9-B
“12th and Clairmount”: A newspaper’s foray into documenting a pivotal summer
Lee Wilkins
Case 9-C
Cincinnati Enquirer’s heroin beat
Chad Painter
Case 9-D
Feminist fault lines: Political memoirs and Hillary Clinton
Miranda Atkinson
Case 9-E
GoldieBlox: Building a future on theft
Scott Burgess
10
The Ethical Dimensions of Art and Entertainment
Case 10-A
Get Out: When the horror is race
Michael Fuhlhage and Lee Wilkins
Case 10-B
To die for: Making terrorists of gamers in Modern Warfare 2
Philip Patterson
Case 10-C
Daily dose of civic discourse
Chad Painter
Case 10-D
The Onion: Finding humor in mass shootings
Chad Painter
Case 10-E
Hate radio: The outer limits of tasteful broadcasting
Brian Simmons
Case 10-F
“Searching for Sugar Man”: Rediscovered art
Lee Wilkins
11
Becoming a Moral Adult
Bibliography
Index