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Did NPR drop Facebook as a sponsor? People were asking after NPR changed its disclosure overnight

Joshua BentonOctober 7, 2020

Should news outlets stop making election forecasts based on polling data?

There’s good evidence that some people find predictive models like FiveThirtyEight’s confusing, and an argument that they might keep people from voting. But 2016’s scars shouldn’t mean that voters have to be kept in the dark.

The Bloomberg Way appears to have gone astray when it killed an investigation into China’s richest man

Christine SchmidtMarch 19, 2018

How digital leaders from the BBC and Al Jazeera are planning for the ethics of AI

“We have to remember, as media, we are gatekeepers to people’s understanding of the modern world.”

Mike AnannyMarch 17, 2016

Mike Ananny: It’s time to reimagine the role of a public editor, starting at The New York Times

“To hold future journalism accountable (not simply to describe its dynamics to interested readers), public editors must speak a new language of platform ethics that is part professional journalism, part technology design, all public values.”

Mark CoddingtonJuly 3, 2014

This Week in Review: Questions on Facebook’s experiment, and a knockout blow to Aereo

Plus: Verdicts in the News Corp. phone hacking scandal, jailed journalists in Egypt, and the rest of the news about the news from the past fortnight.

Caroline O'DonovanMarch 3, 2014

Hacking in the newsroom? What journalists should know about the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act

At the NICAR conference this weekend, data journalists and legal professionals discussed the ethical and criminal implications of hacking in the newsroom.

The problems with news orgs’ maps of Syria

Mike AnannyApril 23, 2013

Breaking news pragmatically: Some reflections on silence and timing in networked journalism

“It certainly takes courage to speak — but it takes a different kind of courage to be silent, to listen, to trust, and speak when the time is right.”

From Nieman Reports: When going undercover, an ethics of utility versus an ethics of rules

“His early career with his hometown paper reminds us that newspapers were a natural monopoly in most places, and bad ones could flourish as easily as good ones.” Philip Meyer

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