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Ethical Decision-Making Models for Journalists

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This topic examines the formal reasoning structures journalists use to resolve conflicts between competing professional duties, from deontological rule-based frameworks to structured multi-step deliberation procedures. Students will analyze how abstract ethical principles such as truth-telling, harm minimization, independence, and accountability are operationalized in concrete newsroom decisions, and how individual judgment interacts with institutional review processes to produce defensible, con

Inhaltsübersicht

  • Principle-Based Reasoning: Deontology, Duty, and the Limits of Rules in Journalism
  • A Structured Procedure for Ethical Deliberation: The SPJ Framework and Its Internal Tensions
  • Applying the Model to Anonymous Sourcing: Truth-Telling Against Harm and Accountability
  • Institutionalizing Ethical Judgment: Standards Editors, Review Processes, and Organizational Culture
A journalist reviewing notes at a desk, representing the weighing of competing professional duties before publication
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