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Welcome To The Ethics Wiki

Welcome to the Online Ethics Wiki, where journalists can share their ideas, suggestions and advice on the ethical dilemmas facing Web journalism.

This Wiki began as a starting tool for the ethics panel at the Online News Association's annual conference which took place on Sept. 11-13 in Washington, D.C. The goal was never to just have a panel though and after attending the "Whose Rules" Ethics Media Workshop at Kent State University, members of the three groups - ONA, KSU and Poynter - have agreed to form a partnership moving forward. For now, this partnership will involve discussing Ethical issues here on this wiki as they arise.

We hope this partnership will also evolve to the point where we have regional workshops over the next year, discussing various ethical issues.

Since this is a Wiki, you are encouraged to make edits and additions where appropriate. Use this main page as a starting point for discussion. After reading through the page, scroll to the bottom of the page and add your own thoughts. Make sure to log in before sharing your thoughts. If you're not familiar with editing Wikis, click here for some basic instructions.

From ONA...

  • ...A representative of the New York Times was in the audience and wasn't happy when we critiqued the use of anonymous sources in the initial reporting of the Eliot Spitzer story.
  • ...Blogger Patrick Thornton made some interesting comments on transparency and it goes to the heart of the sourcing discussion.
  • ...Thornton's seal proposal received a fairly lukewarm response from the crowd Saturday.

...Read live blog from conference.

From Kent State...

Catch up on the Whose Rules? Media Ethics Workshop at Kent State University.

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Coverage by Kent State School of Journalism and Mass Communication

Advertising issues

"My general take on online ethics discussions is that "online" doesn't change journalism ethics, it mostly requires us to look at old problems from a new perspective." Read more from Wendell Cochran...

Some hot button issues

  • Use of sources: anonymous, single sources, or no sources noted at all. What do we do as an individual organization?
  • Linking: to other reports, to reports that may not meet our organization's standards.
  • Transparency: how was the info obtained, attribution, how business or personal interests apply to coverage choices.
  • Conflicts of interest: what personal ties might be involved, and how that might not be as compartmentalized when one is working on a Web platform.
  • Accuracy: what happens when the story changes, that is, early info is wrong, and corrections need to be made later on.
  • User comments, contributions: Do we make them follow the same ethics rules, guidelines as our own authors? How do we do that? Automatic posts, monitored posts?
  • Free flow of information: how free can it really be? Does everyone need a course in First Amendment law?

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Welcome to the Online Ethics Wiki, where journalists can share their ideas, suggestions and advice on the ethical dilemmas facing Web journalism.


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This Wiki was created through a partnership between the Online News Association, Poynter and Kent State.

The intent is to use the OEW as a forum to discuss online journalism ethical issuses as they arise and to build a resource for journalists.

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Blogging

What about a Creative Commons-style seal of ethics for Web sites?

The idea is to have an ethics policy that the community agrees on.

Visual Media
The NPPA's code of ethics is a good starting point, especially for reporters/bloggers who may be relatively new to photo/video journalism.

Blogroll

MediaBloggers.org

Poynter's Ethics Wiki

ONA 2008 Conference

Kent State: 2008 Ethics Workshop

BeatBlogging.org

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