Making Hard Choices in Journalism Ethics: Cases and Practice
Department
Communication
Document Type
Book
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Description
This book teaches students how to make the difficult ethical decisions that journalists routinely face. By taking a case-based approach, the authors argue that the best way to make an ethical decision is to look closely at a particular situation, rather than looking first to an abstract set of ethical theories or principles. This book goes beyond the traditional approaches of many other journalism textbooks by using cases as the starting point for building ethical practices. Casuistry, the technical name of such a method, develops provisional guidelines from the bottom up by reasoning analogically from an "easy" ethical case (the "paradigm") to "harder" ethical cases. Thoroughly grounded in actual experience, this method admits more nuanced judgments than most theoretical approaches.
Call number in WMU's library
PN4756 .B64 2010 (Waldo Library, WMU Authors Collection, First Floor)
ISBN
978-0415990004
Publication Date
2010
Publisher
Routledge
City
New York
Keywords
journalistic ethics, journalism, objectivity.
Disciplines
Journalism Studies
Recommended Citation
Boeyink, David E. and Borden, Sandra, "Making Hard Choices in Journalism Ethics: Cases and Practice" (2010). All Books and Monographs by WMU Authors. 118.
https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/books/118