{"id":1233,"date":"2006-05-06T16:50:18","date_gmt":"2006-05-06T21:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/?p=1233"},"modified":"2006-05-06T16:50:18","modified_gmt":"2006-05-06T21:50:18","slug":"ethics-change-in-the-e-newsroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/ethics-change-in-the-e-newsroom\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethics change in the e-Newsroom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asne.org\/index.cfm?id=6293\">The American Society of Newspaper Editors&#8217; Kellie Hwang reports on a study by my collegue Phil Meyer (and students including Robin Roger and Gabriel Dance) called \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Newspaper Ethics in the New Century.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tidbits include:<\/p>\n<p>Editors are more assertive and have more influence on the business side today, while publishers are interfering less with news coverage.<\/p>\n<p>72 percent of newspapers have an anonymous source policy, and 54 percent have recently revamped their policy. 81 percent of anonymous sources are used when there is a \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcclear and overriding public interest in information that cannot be obtained in any other way.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122<\/p>\n<p>16 percent increase of female editors since 1982.<\/p>\n<p>Blogs are becoming more influential in newsrooms and editors are much more willing to experiment.<\/p>\n<p>There is little indication that the drive for profit has led to a general decline in ethical standards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American Society of Newspaper Editors&#8217; Kellie Hwang reports on a study by my collegue Phil Meyer (and students including Robin Roger and Gabriel Dance) called \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Newspaper Ethics in the New Century.&#8221; Tidbits include: Editors are more assertive and have more influence on the business side today, while publishers are interfering less with news coverage. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-news-of-news","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}