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Media Ethics Bibliography

Updated August 2002



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ONLINE RESOURCES

ASNE Ethics Codes Collection
http://www.asne.org/ideas/codes/codes.htm
The American Society of Newspaper Editors
has posted these codes on their website.

Can You Improve Your Code of Ethics?
http://www.asne.org/kiosk/editor/99.feb/steele1.htm
By Bob Steele and Jay Black.
The American Editor, February 1999.

EthicNet
http://www.uta.fi/ethicnet/
EthicNet is a collection of European codes of journalism ethics.

Ethics Connection
http://www.scu.edu/SCU/Centers/Ethics/
The website for the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics
at Santa Clara University.

Ethics for Digital Information Providers
http://www.elon.edu/andersj/ethics.html
Janna Quitney Anderson, from the Elon School of Communications,
compiled this web page about online news ethics.

Ethics in Journalism
http://www.spj.org/ethics.asp
The ethics section of the Society of Professional Journalists website.

Ethics on Campus: Journalism & College Newspapers
http://members.tripod.com/Islander/indyethics.html
By Francis A. Risso III, Hofstra University.


Ethics on the World Wide Web
http://commfaculty.fullerton.edu lester/ethics/ethics_list.html
This web page was compiled by Paul Lester.

Evolution of the RTNDA Code of Ethics
http://web.missouri.edu/~jourvs/rtcodes.html
By Vernon Stone, Missouri School of Journalism.

FAIR: Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting
http://www.fair.org/
Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting is a national media watch group.

First Amendment Handbook
http://www.rcfp.org/handbook/viewpage.cgi
The Reporters Committee For Freedom of the Press posted
this handbook on their website.

Journal of Mass Media Ethics
http://jmme.byu.edu/
The journal's website includes article abstracts
and information about the publication.

Journalism Ethics Cases Online
http://www.journalism.indiana.edu/Ethics/
These ethics cases come from the
Indiana University School of Journalism.


Media Ethics Division: AEJMC
http://jcomm.uoregon.edu/~tbivins/aejmc_ethics/home.html
The Media Ethics Division of AEJMC includes more than 300 scholars
researching and teaching in the fields of mass communication ethics.


Media Ethics Resources on WWW
http://www.ethics.ubc.ca/resources/media/
The Centre for Applied Ethics at the University of
British Columbia maintains this web page.

Mediaethics.ca
http://www.mediaethics.ca/
A Canadian resource page on media ethics.

Mediaethics.org
http://www.mediaethics.org
Links to online resources about media ethics.

Media Watch
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/media/
The online site for "Media Watch" reports from
the PBS NewsHour television program.

Minnesota News Council
http://www.mtn.org/~newscncl/
The News Council provides a mechanism
for the public to hold news outlets accountable.

OJR Section: Ethics
http://www.ojr.org/ojr/ethics/
Online Journalism Review is produced at the Annenberg School
for Communication at the University of Southern California.

ONO: Organization of News Ombudsmen
http://www.infi.net/ono
The ONO website is a place where news ombudsmen
can share information and ideas.

Payne Awards for Ethics in Journalism
http://jcomm.uoregon.edu/departments/payneawards/
Established in 1999 at the University of
Oregon School of Journalism and Communication.

Poynter Online's Ethics Resources
http://poynter.org/research/me.htm
Resources from the Poynter website.


Poynter Online's Talk about Ethics
http://www.poynter.org/talkaboutethics/
Bob Steele's journalism ethics column.

Public Radio Ethics and Style Guidebook
http://www.npr.org/inside/styleguide/stylmain.htm
This guidebook uses material from
various public radio news organizations.

RTNDA Code of Ethics
http://www.rtnda.org/ethics/coe.shtml
The ethics code for the
Radio-Television News Directors Association.

RTNDF Ethics Project and Coverage Guidelines
http://www.rtnda.org/ethics/fepcg.shtml
The Radio and Television News Directors Foundation's
Journalism Ethics program compiled this web page.

Religionsource
http://www.religionsource.org/
"Religionsource is a free searchable database for journalists seeking
experts when religion intersects society on their beats.
"

Syllabi: Ethics and the Internet
http://www.duke.edu/~wgrobin/ethics/sum02/
Wendy Robinson prepared this syllabi for her
class at Duke.

Syllabi: Mass Media Ethics
http://jcomm.uoregon.edu/~tbivins/J397/
Tom Bivins prepared this syllabi for his
class at the University of Oregon.

Web Resources for Studying Journalism Ethics
http://www2.hawaii.edu/~tbrislin/jethics.html
Compiled by Tom Brislin, Department of Journalism, University of Hawaii.

World-Wide Codes of Journalism Ethics
http://www.presswise.org.uk/ethics.htm
This list was compiled by PressWise.


BOOKS

Arant, David, ed. Perspectives: Ethics, Issues and Controversies in Mass Media.
St. Paul, MN: Coursewise Publishing, 1999.

Atkins, Joseph B., ed. The Mission:
Journalism, Ethics, and the World: International Topics in Media
.
Ames: Iowa State University Press, 2002.

Berry, David, ed. Ethics and Media Culture: Practices and Representations.
Woburn, MA: Focal Press, 2000.

Bertrand, Claude-Jean. Media Ethics and Accountability Systems.
Piscataway, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2000.


Black, Jay. Mixed News: The Public/Civic/Communitarian Journalism Debate.
Mahwah, NJ: L. Erlbaum Associates, 1997.

Bovee, Warren G. Discovering Journalism.
Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1999.

Bugeja, Michael J. Living Ethics: Developing Values in Mass Communication.
Needham Heights, MA: Allyn and Bacon, 1995.

Christians, Clifford G. Good News: Social Ethics and the Press.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.

Christians, Clifford G., et al. Media Ethics: Cases and Moral Reasoning.
White Plains, NY: Longman Publishing Group, 2001.

Cohen, Elliot D. and Deni Elliott, eds. Journalism Ethics: A Reference Handbook.
Santa Barbara, CA: Abc-Clio, 1998.

Cote, William and Roger Simpson.
Covering Violence: A Guide to Ethical Reporting About Victims and Trauma.
New York: Columbia University Press, 2000.

Day, Louis A. Ethics in Media Communications: Cases and Controversies.
Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 2000.

De Vries, Paul, et al. Ethics Applied.
Boston: Pearson Education, 2000.

Downie, Jr. Leonard and Robert G. Kaiser. The News About the News.
New York: Knopf, 2002.

Fallows, James. Breaking the News:
How the Media Undermine American Democracy.

New York: Pantheon, 1996.

Fuller, Jack. News Values: Ideas for an Information Age.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.

Giles, Robert and Robert W. Snyder, eds.
What's Fair?: The Problem of Equity in Journalism.

New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2000.

Goodwin, H. Eugene, Ron F. Smith, Gene Goodwin.
Groping for Ethics in Journalism.
Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1999.

Gordon, A. David, et al. Controversies in Media Ethics.
White Plains, NY: Longman Publishers, 1999.

Hausman, Carl. Crisis of Conscience: Perspectives on Journalism Ethics.
New York: Harper Collins, 1992.

Iggers, Jeremy. Good News, Bad News: Journalism Ethics and the Public Interest.
Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1998.

Kasoma, Francis P. ed. Journalism Ethics in Africa.
Nairobi, Kenya: African Council for Communication Education, 1994.

Keeble, Richard. Ethics for Journalists.
New York: Routledge, 2001.

Knowlton, Steven R. Moral Reasoning for Journalists.
Westport, CT: Praeger, 1997.

Knowlton, Steven R. and Patrick R. Parsons, eds. The Journalist's Moral Compass.
Westport, CT: Praeger, 1995.

Kovach, Bill and Tom Rosenstiel. The Elements of Journalism:
What Newspeople Should Know and the Public Should Expect
.
New York: Crown Publishers, 2001.

Lambeth, Edmund. Committed Journalism: An Ethic for the Profession.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992.

Lee, M. and N. Solomon. Unreliable Sources:
A Guide to Detecting Bias in News Media.

New York: Carol Publishing Group, 1990.

Leslie, Larry Z. Mass Communication Ethics:
Decision Making in Postmodern Culture
.
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 2000.

Lester, Paul Martin. Images That Injure: Pictorial Stereotypes in the Media.
Westport, CT: Praeger, 1996.

----. Photojournalism: An Ethical Approach.
Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1991.

Limburg, Val E. Electronic Media Ethics.
Boston: Focal Press, 1994.

MacDonald, Barrie and Michel Petheram.
Keyguide to Information Sources in Media Ethics.
London: Mansell Publishing, 1998.

Matelski, Marilyn J. TV News Ethics.
Boston: Focal Press, 1991.

Merrill, John C. Journalism Ethics: Philosophical Foundations for News Media.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997.

Moore, Roy L. Mass Communication Law and Ethics.
Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1999.

Patterson, Philip and Lee Wilkins. Media Ethics: Issues and Cases.
Boston, MA: McGraw Hill, 2002.

Pritchard, David, ed. Holding the Media Accountable:
Citizens, Ethics, and the Law
.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000.

Russell, Nick. Morals and the Media: Ethics in Canadian Journalism.
Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1994.

Seib, Philip. Campaigns and Conscience: The Ethics of Political Journalism.
Westport, CT: Praeger, 1994.

Seib, Philip and Kathy Fitzpatrick. Journalism Ethics.
Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace, 1997.

Smith, Ron F. Groping for Ethics in Journalism.
Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1999.

Weaver, Paul H. News and the Culture of Lying: How Journalism Really Works.
New York: The Free Press, 1995.



     
 
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