Find information on Journalism and Media Ethics, with a special focus on digital media. Topics include trust, accuracy, engagement, data journalism, and inclusiveness. (For permission to reprint articles, submit requests to ethics@scu.edu.)
The questions reporters ask high-level politicians in planned settings are actual decisions. That does not mean ethical pre-review ought not to go into the question framing.
Guidance for the news media on what to do about Prediction Markets, how to take the next steps.
The media’s use of data from prediction markets requires a second look.
Truthful reporting is faithful to the reality of what is happening on-the-ground, to real people in real time.
This benchmark provides news feed product designers, journalism researchers, news organizations, and AI model developers with performance metrics for evaluating LLM capabilities in analyzing sourcing of news stories at scale.
When might a newsroom not “report” the stories of people and instead let them have the microphone? One answer to this came from Greg Eskridge of KALW’s award-winning podcast Uncuffed.
How might students systematically record the use of sourcing and attribution present in everyday news stories? Use this standalone guide to annotating sourcing. It comes with all the crucial definitions and media ethics context you'll need, examples, instructions, and template spreadsheet.
- A collection of resources from the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics.
A list of AI ethics issues and links to relevant materials from the Ethics Center.
- Conversations on Ethics, AI, & the Future of Creative Work
A creative and ethical inquiry into what it means to be a designer, or any kind of creator, in an AI-saturated world.
This resource will provide guardrails for everyday news headlining for headline writers in newsrooms, including news editors, SEO specialists and social media editors.