Watch What You Tweet By Casey Bukro Ethics AdviceLine for Journalists To tweet or not to tweet, that seems to be the question involving Lauren Wolfe, dismissed by the New York Times for reasons not totally explained. At first, it looked like Wolfe was fired for tweeting she had “chills”…

Erasing News Archives By Casey Bukro and Hugh Miller Ethics AdviceLine for Journalists The searing images and reports of the January 6 terrorist mass attack on the nation’s Capital caused a long-simmering debate to resurface over preserving or expunging printed and visual information about people that could be damaging or…

Pandemic Top Word of 2020 By Casey Bukro Ethics AdviceLine for Journalists In just 34 days, “COVID-19” went from being newly minted to a term listed online by the Merriam-Webster dictionary. That was record time, Peter Sokolowski, Merriam-Webster’s editor at large, told the Associated Press. “That’s the shortest period of…

Presidential debates mirror civil discord Add title dailymotion.com image By Casey Bukro Ethics AdviceLine for Journalists As presidential debate moderators go, they didn’t stack up to the likes of revered Walter Cronkite. Moderators of the 2020 Donald Trump and Joe Biden debates were critiqued, criticized, chastised and lampooned. Gone are…

By Casey Bukro Ethics AdviceLine for Journalists. No doubt you’ve been waiting for the answers to that journalism ethics quiz posted earlier featuring samples of questions answered in the past by the Ethics AdviceLine for Journalists. Some people just can’t resist matching their wits with AdviceLine ethics gurus who answer…

By Casey Bukro Ethics AdviceLine for Journalists A pandemic makes journalism ethics more important. The truth is more important than ever as rumors and false information swirl. That’s where making ethical decisions comes into play. It’s hard to do it alone. That’s why the Ethics AdviceLine for Journalists exists. Call…

By Casey Bukro Ethics AdviceLine for Journalists The history of plagues and pandemics shows some similarities in the way they spread, and how people react. Travelers, whether soldiers or traders, often were the super spreaders of their day. Quarantine is a centuries-old strategy against pandemics. Wearing masks is an old…

By Casey Bukro Ethics AdviceLine for Journalists The history of plagues and pandemics shows some similarities in the way they spread, and how people react. Travelers, whether soldiers or traders, often were the super spreaders of their day. Quarantine is a centuries-old strategy against pandemics. Wearing masks is an old…

By Casey Bukro Ethics AdviceLine for Journalists “Oh, what a tangled web we weave…when first we practice to deceive.” — Walter Scott. The debate or confusion over wearing a mask as a defense against coronavirus-19 is a tangle of mixed messages that began with deception. It’s a good lesson in…