Defines and analyzes current and pressing ethical issues, positions, and considerations pertaining to news gathering and reporting

Product Description: The aim of this text is to help students recognize the important role they play as journalists, and to make the connection between excellent journalism and ethical journalism.

Product Description: One of the sharpest recent debates over media ethics has centered around what has been variously called public or civic or communitarian journalism. This special issue examines some of the underlying concerns of communitarian journalism including the relationships between individual and community and the connecting role of journalism; negative vs...read more

Product Description: In a society in which persuasion is a second nature skill for individuals, advertising and public relations are the outgrowth professions that raise the process of persuasion to a fine art, leaving both gratitude and fear in their wake...read more

Product Description: Intended for applied philosophy courses and mass communication courses, this text takes an interdisciplinary view on the key topics in communication, ethics, literature, psychology, religion, and history. The writings in this anthology serve as a basis for a critical analysis of ethical issues facing the mass communication industry today...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Examining the applied media ethics question of professional persuasion, this special double issue resulted from a colloquium and conference on allowable ethical limits of deception in professional persuasion. Participants were invited to reason their way toward a threshold that would define acceptable deception for a professional persuader in pursuit of favorable market and public opinion conditions for a client...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This special issue shows that "old ethics" don't always provide ready answers to problems raised by new technology. Exploring the perplexing topic of ethics in new media, this special issue: *examines the ethics of the highly controversial 1998 Cincinnati Enquirer exposé of Chiquita Brands International; *reports on a pilot project involving online journalists and online journalism graduate students; *investigates the extent to which e-mail and listservs are--and could be--effective fora for journalists interested in exploring matters of ethics; and *provides a useful annotated webliography of information resources...read more