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Ethics in a new media world

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Randy Covington

Director, WAN-IFRA Newsplex

at the University of South Carolina

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St. Peter’s Square

Rome, Italy

A new Pope

is named

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The media world is changing.

How should we in traditional

media respond?

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Lessons from Boston

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Lessons from Boston

Speed vs. accuracy

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Lessons from Boston

Graphic reality vs. taste

Boston Globe

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Lessons from Boston

Graphic reality vs. taste

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Lessons from Boston

Graphic reality vs. taste

Is it okay

to Photoshop?

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Lessons from Boston

Authorities release

photos; the web

goes to work

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Lessons from Boston

Innocent people are identified as suspects

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Lessons from Boston

Reddit apologizes

The reddit staff and the millions of people on reddit around the world

deeply regret that this happened. We have apologized privately to the

family of missing college student Sunil Tripathi, as have various users

and moderators. We want to take this opportunity to apologize public

for the pain they have had to endure.

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Lessons from Boston

“In a world where everyone is a

publisher, no one is an editor. And that

is the danger we face today.”

Scott Pelley

Anchor, CBS TV

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Lessons from Boston

New York Post

criticized

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Lessons from Boston

Shootout seen online

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Lessons from Boston

Search for explanations

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We know what we do best. But

how do we compete in areas

where we do less well.

Example: online comments.

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New Yorker

cartoon

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BitterWaitress.com

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Shouldn’t comments be moderated?

“Besides forming online communities in

which people share ideas, news and

gossip and debate issues of the day,

blogs empower character assassins and

mischief makers.”USA Today

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Shouldn’t comments be moderated?

rcubedkc wrote:We have a worthless, drunken coward in the White House and a

majority of Senators who are traitors. They will go down in history as the

sellouts who destroyed the United States. God damned each and every one of

them. I hope they all die a slow, horrible and painful death. 6/26/2007 6:14:32 PM

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Should comments be annonymous?

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Shouldn’t comments be moderated?

Huffington Post

moderates

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Questions for journalists

• Shouldn’t we have the same

standards for letters & comments?

• Don’t people deserve to know who

is attacking them?

• Should social media set the rules?

• Is it better to be first or right?

• Aren’t we risking action by someone

else if we don’t take responsibility?