Chapter 6
Journalism Ethics: Resources
By David Krajicek

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Journalism Resources

• The Society of Professional Journalists (http://www.spj.org) maintains an ethics telephone hot line at (317) 927-8000, extension 208, or e-mail ethics@spj.org. Your question will be forwarded to an appropriate journalism source.
• The American Society of Newspaper Editors maintains convenient web links to the ethics codes or integrity statements of about 50 news organizations at http://www.asne.org/index.cfm?id=387.
• The Online Journalism Review, produced at the University of Southern California, maintains a library of ethics-themed stories at http://www.ojr.org/ojr/ethics. The page includes an easily accessed archive.
• The Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg, Fla., maintains an ethics archive at http://www.poynteronline.org/ethics.
• The Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk has a long section about crime reporting in its ethics code. For excerpts, click here.
• For condensed excerpts from the ethics codes of four major news organizations, click here.

Advocacy and Education

• Project for Excellence in Journalism and Committee of Concerned Journalists, http://www.journalism.org, (202) 293-7394.
• Rocky Mountain Media Watch, http://www.bigmedia.org
• Accuracy in Media, http://www.aim.org, (202) 364-4401.
• Fair and Accuracy in Reporting, http://www.fair.org, (212)633-6700.
• Indiana University has compiled a collection of interesting and/or important media ethics issues at http://www.journalism.indiana.edu/Ethics/
• A link to a Poynter Institute essay by Bob Steele, "Why Ethics Matter": http://www.poynter.org/centerpiece/080902_matters.htm
• The Berkeley Media Studies Group in California has produced an updated guide to reporting on violence. For a copy, call (510) 204-9700 or e-mail dorfman@bmsg.org.
• Newslab, a Washington-based non-profit resource for television newsrooms, offers an archive and links at its web site, http://www.newslab.org.

Web Links
The American Society of Newspaper Editors maintains an electronic archive of about 50 newspapers and news organizations at http://www.asne.org/ideas/codes/codes.htm. Here are direct-link addresses for other ethics codes available on the Web.

• SPJ, http://www.spj.org/ethics_code.asp
• ASNE, http://www.asne.org/kiosk/archive/principl.htm
• New York Times, http://www.asne.org/ideas/codes/newyorktimesintegrity.htm
• Radio and Television News Directors Association, http://www.rtnda.org/ethics/coe.shtml
• Associated Press Managing Editors, http://www.apme.com/about/code_ethics.shtml