Ethics
On buying a story in the Internet era
It’s hardly surprising that Web journalists should be fast, competitive, ruthless, sensationalist — and willing to do most anything for the story. It will be messy — and fun! — Nick Denton, founder of Gawker Media discussing his decision to pay $5,000 for a next-generation iPhone found in a California bar, which his blog turned [...]
Live blog: Steve Buttry presents an API ethics seminar at TCU
Steve Buttry, C3 innovation coach for Gazette Communications, will present a full-day workshop on ethics at TCU on November 19 during a workshop put on by the Schieffer School of Journalism. You can join in the live chat below or contribute by using Twitter hashtag #TCUethics. Steve will also be presenting a session on innovation [...]
Does checkbook journalism pay?
With all the attention garnered by the “balloon boy” story, any information available about the boy and his family became fodder for news outlets. Amid all the coverage, one online news site was able to score a rather valuable interview — one with a Denver college student who supposedly had knowledge of a plan by [...]
Cost to buy a story from a source
$163,273 or €110,000 from the UK’s Daily Telegraph to buy information that broke one of the country’s biggest government scandals in recent history
Whether paying sources is worth it
A story is a story. We’re not squeamish about the means. And the paroxysms of the j-school ethicists add to the satisfaction. — Gawker CEO Nick Denton, in an interview with the Wall Street Journal‘s All Things Digital
Is the Web altering the ethics of reporting?
As the Web has provided whole new avenues to tell stories, it has also created new methods of information gathering, some of which challenge some of the most basic principles of traditional journalism. Among the most controversial new ways of developing stories is what is being called “process journalism.”
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