Just one year ago, four organizations renowned for promoting free speech on college campuses issued a dire warning: The independence of college media is under attack. The report—called, approp...
http://mediashift.org/2017/12/college-media-year-review-defending-free-student-speech/
This post originally appeared on the Center for Journalism Ethics site at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Another week, another mass shooting in America. In addition to being heartsick, angr...
http://mediashift.org/2017/10/educators-can-discuss-journalists-coverage-violence/
Evolving technology is prompting new First Amendment challenges. As you prepare materials for your media law, ethics or First Amendment courses, here are six issues to consider adding to the disc...
http://mediashift.org/2017/10/6-new-media-first-amendment-issues-horizon/
Five years ago when I began researching the ethical implications of using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in journalism, a trusted mentor told me it might not be the best choice for a research a...
Two weeks before publication of my four-month long investigation into Internet trolling by Fairfax newspapers across Australia, my editor sent me an email. “It’s been playing on my mind. I wo...
http://mediashift.org/2017/06/journalism-rip-off-following-lifting-straight-plagiarism/
This post, originally posted to Storybench, is from the Reinventing Local TV News Project, from Northeastern’s School of Journalism, which is analyzing the formats and practices of local news ...
http://mediashift.org/2017/06/local-tv-know-taking-off-drone-journalism/
Each term, the University of Oregon invites guest speakers in the academic and professional media industry to participate in the “Demystifying Media” program. The lectures aim to challenge fa...
Imagine opening your morning newspaper (itself a novelty these days) and finding a story about, not just life, but entire civilizations on another planet, attributed to one of the world’s forem...
http://mediashift.org/2017/05/fake-news-isnt-new-history-offers-way-fight/
Students hate group projects – that’s what I was told before my University of Arkansas journalism ethics class sought to study the role of media during the 2016 presidential general-election ...
The following piece is a guest post and does not necessarily reflect the opinions of this publication. A few hours after after Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary, compared Syrian Presid...