What Great Bosses Know about Ethics Traps

As a manager, how do you view ethics in the workplace? I hope you don’t see it as simply enforcing rules and regulations to keep the business out of trouble. That’s a very narrow view

The unpaid internships debate: a clarification on our stance

Last week Journalism.co.uk wasn’t just reporting the debate about unpaid internships in the media industry – we were part of it after a six-month, unpaid placement with Tesco was listed on our forums. The ad was placed in error – we do list unpaid internships, so long as they are within a reasonable length of time. We had some useful Twitter conversations about the listing and the ethics of listing unpaid internships at all – these have helped us update our policy for posting such listings on the forum

Editor catches town’s ethics boss using pseudonym in letters to paper

Woodstock Times Woodstock, NY ethics board chairman James Dougherty — he used Jim Charles for his letters — threatened to sue the Woodstock Times he if was outed as the writer. “He said that now he’d have to resign from the Ethics Board, and that was my fault,” writes editor Brian Hollander . “So be it.”

Reportr.net: ‘Does new media require new journalism ethics?’

Professor Alfred Hermida reports on today’s conference at the Center for Journalism Ethics at UW-Madison’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication, which will look at changing media ethics in an online environment.

Broadcast Journalism and Mass Media Communications at Sterling College, Communications (Sterling, KS)

Teach courses over a two-year cycle: Mass Media Labs; Media, Self and Society; Media Production I/II; Advanced Media Production; Media Writing; Communication theory and/or Communication Law and Ethics; Principles of Public Relations;…

ABC’s Payment to Casey Anthony Raises Questions about Ethics, Checkbook Journalism

ABC News has admitted that it paid accused murderer Casey Anthony $200,000 in exchange for exclusive rights to video and photos. The network denies that the payments also included agreements for interviews. The revelation came in a Orlando court hearing Thursday

Ethicist: Why didn’t reporters tell us about Ashburn’s sexual orientation?

Bakersfield Express Christopher Meyer says he was “flabbergasted” to learn that Sen. Roy Ashburn is gay. “Shouldn’t we, Ashburn’s constituents, have learned all this long ago?” asks Meyer, director of the Kegley Institute of Ethics at California State University.