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Media Ethics Division Call for Papers.... Read more

Celebrate the career of Clifford G. Christians, who is ending his 35th year as a faculty member at the University of Illinois’ Institute of Communications Research..... Read more

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Best practices on objectivity and balance
The notion of objectivity and balance as fundamental to ethical journalism has been well discussed in these pages. But what happens when federal law mandates those principles?Such is the case with the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which is required under its 1967 charter to develop programming “with strict adherence to objectivity and balance in all programs or series of programs of a controversial nature..... Read more