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Chapter 12 Ethics & Journalism
• Three Ways ethical behaviour among journalists
can be promoted:
• Legislation
• Codes of Conduct
• Enforcement—self-regulation and statutory
controls
Legislative Bodies
• UK
BSC, BBC Board of Governors, ITC, RA, OFCOM
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• USA
FCC, Congress, Senate, Courts
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• Worldwide
See page 141 paragraph 2 under Codes
IFJ, WAPC 1992
UK
OFCOM
• BSC, BBC Board of Governors,
ITC, RA, OFCOM
UK
BBC Board of Governors
United States
FCC
• FCC, Congress, Senate, Courts
• See page 141 paragraph 2
under Codes
Worldwide
IFJ
• IFJ, WAPC 1992
Functions of Codes
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Protection
Education
Public Relations
Damage Limitations
Protection of
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Readers
Sources
Journalists
Those in the news
Children
IPSO (formerly PCC)
• PCC
January 1991 What it is? Who it is? What it does?
Chapter 14 Ethics & Journalism
• Discuss why it is necessary to be and how to be a good journalist.
Appendix Ethics & Journalism
• Codes of the IPSO/PCC
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Accuracy
Opportunity to reply
Privacy
Harassment
Intrusion into grief or shock
Children
Children in sex cases
Appendix Ethics & Journalism
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Listening devices
Hospitals
Reporting of crime
Misrepresentation
Victims of sexual assault
Appendix Ethics & Journalism
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Discrimination
Financial journalism
Confidential sources
Payment for articles
• Discuss “in the Public Interest”