Monthly Archives: December 2018

One important lesson i’ve learned throughout the course is to never make up fake sources. In the beginning of the semester we watched the movie Shattered Glass about Stephen Glass. In the movie Stephen is found out by his editor to … Continue reading →

Blog 5 – Reflections on this course OverviewBlog 5 must include the follow sections: This class have taught me a lot of important ethical lessons from the lectures and case studies. The first important ethical lesson is deception and truth-telling. … Continue reading →

Ethical Lessons One ethical lesson that caught my eye in this course was the lecture on invasion of privacy. We learned when and where it is appropriate to take pictures of people in public. I think that it is crazy … Continue reading →

Throughout the semester in Comm 409 we learned multiple ways in becoming a good, true and fair journalist. Two of the most important ethics to me that we learned were minimizing harm and to seek the truth. I feel as … Continue reading →

Blog 5  Alanna Boston  A couple of ethical lessons I have learned from participating in COMM 409 were broad, yet simple. The first would be to keep a sense of humanity as a journalist, because I service the people. If … Continue reading →

This course has taught me a lot about the ethics of journalism, which was to be expected. What I did not expect was to learn about so many cases about various ethical problems in journalism today. One of these cases … Continue reading →

Ethical Lessons One important ethical lesson I learned from this course is not to accept any sort of gift from something you are reporting on because that will cause an ethical dilemma and may cause you to be biased on … Continue reading →

Important ethical lessons: This course has taught me many ethical lessons. Two of the topics that I found most important were conflicts of interest and ethical issues as they pertain to digital and photo journalism. Conflicts of interest was an … Continue reading →

Throughout the course of this class, we have learned about many different case studies that have had major impacts on journalism and journalists alike, and a few stand out to me more than others.   The first case study that … Continue reading →

Two Important Ethical Issues: There was a multitude of lesson taught this semester so cutting it down to two of the most impactful ones on me personally was difficult. One of the lessons I picked was on the verifying sources … Continue reading →

Two Ethical Issues  Throughout the semester, I learned about a variety of ethical issues and lessons through every class from each case study we covered.  The two main ethical issues I believe that stayed with me the most are deception … Continue reading →

One of my favorite sections of this class was our discussion of the movie Shattered Glass and its case study. I felt this was a great introduction into ethics and the course especially in media. The movie was intriguing and … Continue reading →

Ethical Lessons A few of the ethical lessons that have stuck with me throughout the durations of this course were the naming victims case study, the photojournalism lecture, and the Stephen Glass lectures and movie. My biggest takeaway from the … Continue reading →

Two important ethical lessons from the lectures/case studies (at least two) you have had in this course. After all of our class lectures and case studies we have covered, it was difficult to pick two important ethical lessons I have … Continue reading →

Two Important Ethical Lessons I have learned many ethical lessons through out the semester, but the two most important ones for me are being accountable and covering a diverse society in journalism. Being accountable: Journalists are people who get first-hand … Continue reading →