JOURNALIST ETHICS

Cyberspace ethics falls furthered as we read every day. As health information center, the sneakiness drug business site camouflaged misleading stock tips made in financial chat rooms, electronic shopping whose results are twisted to favor retail clients, e-commerce sites malfunction violations of users privacy. Online news sites have achieved splendidly, judge against to this sorry track record. Fortunately journalism on the Web has been faultless. Online journalism ethics may perhaps be clustered into three wide categories: Gathering the news, reporting the news and presenting the news.
The fist code of ethics for professional journalism was written by members of Sigma Delta Chi in 1926. These codes are as follow:
-Preamble
It is giving an Idea of journalist credibility duty with the public.
-Seek Truth and Report it
When gathering, reporting and interpreting information, journalist should be fair, honest and fearless.
-Minimize Harm
This is giving the idea of how journalist should handle sources, subject and colleagues. They should be treated as human being and with respect.
-Act Independently
Journalist should give priority to the public’s right to know.
-Be Accountable
Journalists are accountable to theirs readers, listeners, viewers and others.

http://www.spj.org/ethics.asp

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