Media accountability : who will watch the watchdog in the Twitter age? / edited by William A. Babcock.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Babcock, William A. (Professor of journalism)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mass media--Moral and ethical aspects.

Mass media.

Physical Description:

vii, 164 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2012.

Summary:

A small collection of well-honed tools has been employed for some time by media practitioners and the public to help maintain and improve the credibility of journalism and the mass media. These media accountability tools have included ethics codes, media critics, news councils, ombudsmen, journalism reviews and pubic/civic journalism initiatives. Now, in the 21st Century, the mass media are increasingly being buffeted by a perfect storm of declining subscribers and audience share, dwindling advertising revenue, changing corporate demands, unpredictable audiences and new-media competition. If journalism and the mass media are to stay afloat and be credible, the media accountability toolbox needs to contain suitable tools for the job, which begs the question: Who will Watch the Watchdog in the Twitter Age? This book contains answers to this question from the perspective of 17 media ethics experts from around the globe. Their answers will help shape and define for years to come the tools in the media ethics toolbox. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Mass Media Ethics.

Contents:

Mocking the news: how The Daily Show with Jon Stewart holds traditional broadcast news accountable / Chad Painter and Louis Hodges

Toward an open ethics: implications of new media platforms for global ethics discourse / Stephen J. A. Ward and Herman Wasserman

Recommendations for hosting audience comments based on discourse ethics / Mark Cenite and Yu Zhang

Newsgathering and privacy: expanding ethics codes to reflect change in the digital media age / Ginny Whitehouse

Social audits as media watchdogging / Walter B. Jaehnig and Uche Onyebadi

Ethical implications of anonymous comments posted to online news stories / Laura Hlavach and William H. Freivogel

The ethics examiner and media councils: improving ombudsmanship and news councils for true citizen journalism / Rick Kenney and Kerem Ozkan

"I am eating a sandwich now" : intent and foresight in the Twitter age / Stacy Elizabeth Stevenson and Lee Anne Peck

Ethics and eloquence in journalism: an approach to press accountability / Theodore L. Glasser and James S. Ettema.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780415698399

0415698391

OCLC:

741542071