Links on journalism ethics

Last Thursday I presented API's first Upholding and Updating Ethical Standards seminar at the Victoria Advocate in Texas. Below are the handouts for three of the sessions, dealing with breaking news, user-generated content and digital visual journalism. I also pass along some links I shared in another handout, some of them dealing with specific topics we discussed, some of them general links on ethics or online ethical issues. I welcome your suggestions on improving the handouts for future seminars and on more links to pass along:

Guidelines for online ethical decisions developed by a 2006 Poynter Institute conference

Rick Edmonds’ “Online Ethics: The Beginning of the End of the Ad Hoc Era,” reporting on that Poynter conference

“Ethics of Online Journalism,” Online Journalism Review

“A Blogger’s Code of Ethics,” Cyberjournalist.net

Howard Owens’ “Real identity helps foster online communities” (browse through Owens’ blog for more posts on the issue of identification vs. anonymity)

Kelly McBride’s “Dialogue or Diatribe”

Edward Wasserman’s “Making online news sell”

Regina McCombs’ “Meaning in Motion: Ken Burns and His ‘Effect’”:

Steve Outing’s “Reporters need two Facebook pages”

Larry Atkins’ “Outlets that utilize citizen journalists must be careful”

Bob Steele’s “Helter Skelter No More: An Evolving Guidebook for Online Ethics”

Bob Steele’s “Guiding Principles for the Journalist”

Bob Steele’s “10 Questions to Make Good Ethical Decisions”

Society of Professional Journalists Code of Ethics