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Journalism is a discipline of collecting, analyzing, verifying, and presenting news regarding current events, trends, issues and people. Those who practice journalism are known as journalists. While under pressure to be first with their stories, news media organizations usually edit and proofread their reports prior to publication, adhering to each organization's standards of accuracy, quality and style. Many news organizations claim proud traditions of holding government officials and institutions accountable to the public, while media critics have raised questions about holding the press itself accountable.
Journalism ethics and standards include principles of ethics and of good practice to address the specific challenges faced by professional journalists. Historically and currently these principles are most widely known to journalists as their professional "code of ethics" or the "canons of journalism." The basic codes and canons commonly appear in statements drafted by both professional journalism associations and individual print, broadcast, and online news organizations.
| “ | Every news organization has only its credibility and reputation to rely on. | ” |
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- -Tony Burman, editor-in-chief of CBC News [citation needed]
While various existing codes have some differences, most share common elements including the principles of — truthfulness, accuracy, objectivity, impartiality, fairness and public accountability — as these apply to the acquisition of newsworthy information and its subsequent reportage to the public.
Like many broader ethical systems, journalism ethics include the principle of "limitation of harm." This often involves the withholding of certain details from reports such as the names of minor children, crime victims' names or information not materially related to particular news reports release of which might, for example, harm someone's reputation.
...that John Milton's pamphlet Areopagitica, a Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing, published in 1644, was one of the first publications advocating freedom of the press?
...that the two largest talk radio networks in Canada are the publicly owned Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's English language CBC Radio One and French language Première Chaîne?
...that historically, the BBC was the only radio broadcaster in the UK until 1967 when University Radio York (URY), then under the name Radio York, was launched as the first (and now oldest) legal independent radio station in the country?
...that the five national newspapers in Japan are the Yomiuri Shimbun, the Asahi Shimbun, the Mainichi Shimbun, Nihon Keizai Shimbun and the Sankei Shimbun?
- December 13: Belgian main francophone television channel RTBF falsely claims the secession of Flanders, igniting a deontology, media responsibility and accountability -themed debate in Belgium political and journalistic spheres.
- December: French journalist Marie Drucker announces that she'll step down from her post as evening news anchor during the upcoming presidential campaign after her involvment with French overseas minister François Baroin is revealed by a celebrity magazine
- "Journalism largely consists in saying 'Lord Jones Dead' to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive."
- G. K. Chesterton, The Purple Wig in The Wisdom of Father Brown (1914)
- "A news sense is really a sense of what is important, [...] what people are interested in. That's journalism."
- Attributed to Burton Rascoe
- "Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism."
- Attributed to Hunter S. Thompson
| Professional Issues | Social Impact | News media | Roles |
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| • Ethics • News Values • Objectivity • Attribution • News Source • Libel Law • | row 1, cell 2 | row 1, cell 3 | row 1, cell 4 |
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