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Law and Ethics for Today's Journalist

- A Concise Guide

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Law and Ethics for Today's Journalist offers aspiring and working journalists the practical understanding of law and ethics they must have to succeed at their craft. Instead of covering every nuance of media law for aspiring communication professionals, Mathewson focuses on what's relevant for journalists. Even though media law and media ethics are closely linked together in daily journalistic practice, they are usually covered in separate volumes. Mathewson brings them together in a clear and colorful way that practicing journalists will find more useful. Everything a journalist needs to know about legal protections, limitations, and risks inherent in workaday reporting is illustrated with highlights from major court opinions.Mathewson advises journalists who must often make ethical decisions on the spot with no time for elaborate, multi-faceted analysis. The book assigns to journalists the hard decisions on ethical questions such as whether to go undercover or otherwise misrepresent themselves in order to get a big story. The ethics chapter precedes the law chapters because ethical standards should underlie a journalist's work at all times. In situations where ethics and law are not obviously parallel, the journalist may sometimes be called to make a defensible personal judgment.Law and Ethics for Today's Journalist is user-friendly, written in clear, direct, understandable language on issues that really matter to a working journalist. Supplementary reading of actual court cases is recommended; URLs for many cases are conveniently provided in the end-of-chapter references. The book includes a fine (but purposely not exhaustive) bibliography listing important and useful legal cases, including instructive appellate and trial court opinions, state as well as federal.

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  • Sprache:
  • Englisch
  • ISBN:
  • 9780765640765
  • Einband:
  • Taschenbuch
  • Seitenzahl:
  • 240
  • Veröffentlicht:
  • 30. Oktober 2013
  • Abmessungen:
  • 229x153x17 mm.
  • Gewicht:
  • 362 g.
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Law and Ethics for Today's Journalist offers aspiring and working journalists the practical understanding of law and ethics they must have to succeed at their craft. Instead of covering every nuance of media law for aspiring communication professionals, Mathewson focuses on what's relevant for journalists. Even though media law and media ethics are closely linked together in daily journalistic practice, they are usually covered in separate volumes. Mathewson brings them together in a clear and colorful way that practicing journalists will find more useful. Everything a journalist needs to know about legal protections, limitations, and risks inherent in workaday reporting is illustrated with highlights from major court opinions.Mathewson advises journalists who must often make ethical decisions on the spot with no time for elaborate, multi-faceted analysis. The book assigns to journalists the hard decisions on ethical questions such as whether to go undercover or otherwise misrepresent themselves in order to get a big story. The ethics chapter precedes the law chapters because ethical standards should underlie a journalist's work at all times. In situations where ethics and law are not obviously parallel, the journalist may sometimes be called to make a defensible personal judgment.Law and Ethics for Today's Journalist is user-friendly, written in clear, direct, understandable language on issues that really matter to a working journalist. Supplementary reading of actual court cases is recommended; URLs for many cases are conveniently provided in the end-of-chapter references. The book includes a fine (but purposely not exhaustive) bibliography listing important and useful legal cases, including instructive appellate and trial court opinions, state as well as federal.

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