Posts Tagged with ‘code-of-ethics’

Have we finally reached the tipping point for actually stating that we have ethics and where we draw those lines?
It wasn't even a month ago when I mentioned that all bloggers may need a personal code of ethics as detailed as Kara Swisher's if we wanted to be taken seriously as journalists. There is often a fuzzy line, especially when you are writing in a world where blogs often co-sponsor parties with the companies they are supposed to be covering.
Duncan [...]

Blogging is at a turning point. There seem to be three different types of bloggers: those who use it as an online diary, those who view themselves as journalists, and those who view themselves as journalists without all the trappings that traditional media types are bound by.
My personal blog is firmly in the first segment, but I'd probably put myself in the last category to an extent in my "work" writing. I started out as a journalism major, but couldn't [...]

On the Web, what constitutes “going too far”? In one word, nothing. But that doesn’t mean certain things shouldn’t be off limits and regulated into the realm of the unseen. A headline on the Silicon Valley Watcher having to do with Justin’s (of Justin.TV) decision to cap the lens and smother the mic during a moment of frisky behavior with another party led me to consider the matter and try to make the case for refraining from “crossing [...]