Volume 35, Issue 1, January-March 2020, Page 60-64.

It is rare to have two edited volumes on media ethics published within a month of each other. Yet, The Routledge Companion to Journalism Ethics and the Handbook of Global Media Ethics were both rel...

As I write this essay, more than 250,000 Americans have died from COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, in the last ten months. To put this quarter of a million deaths into perspective,...

Volume 34, Issue 3, July-September 2019, Page 171-175.

Over the past year, I rarely worked in my campus office due to mitigation protocols to limit the spread of COVID-19 on our campus. When I returned in late spring, I was delighted to find two new bo...

The Ethical Responsibilities of Journalism Vis-à-Vis the Economics of News Earlier this year, Dr. Ryan Thomas reached out to me about a potential topic for the Trends section of the journal. He had...

This study evaluates the ethical criteria lobbyists consider in their professional activities using Ruth Edgett's model for ethically desirable public relations advocacy. Data were collected from self-administered surveys of 222 registered lobbyists in Oregon. A factor analysis reduced 18 ethical criteria to seven underlying factors describing lobbyists' ethical approaches to their work. Results indicate that lobbyists consider the following factors in their day-to-day professional activities: situation, strategy, argument, procedure, nature of lobbying, priority, and accuracy. This framework, derived from Edgett's 10 (...) criteria, illustrates the importance of context while incorporating ideas from recognized ethical theories. (shrink)

Volume 34, Issue 1, January-March 2019, Page 52-56.