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Early Judaic Ethics Applied To The Society Of Professional Journalist’S Decision On The Fate Of The Helen Thomas Lifetime Achievement Award, Ginny Whitehouse, Lindsay Huffman Dec 2013

Early Judaic Ethics Applied To The Society Of Professional Journalist’S Decision On The Fate Of The Helen Thomas Lifetime Achievement Award, Ginny Whitehouse, Lindsay Huffman

Ginny Whitehouse

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The Murderer's Salute: News Images Of Breivik's Defiance After Killing 77 In Oslo, Ginny Whitehouse Dec 2012

The Murderer's Salute: News Images Of Breivik's Defiance After Killing 77 In Oslo, Ginny Whitehouse

Ginny Whitehouse

The author discusses Anders Behring Breivik's massacre and murder cases in Oslo, Norway on July 22, 2011. The goals and plans of Breivik in committing the crime of killing 77 people are tackled. The author mentions that Breivik has been facing 21 years of imprisonment in Ila prison, within the site of a former Nazi concentration camp in Oslo.


Newsgathering And Privacy: Expanding Ethics Codes To Reflect Change In The Digital Media Age, Ginny Whitehouse Dec 2010

Newsgathering And Privacy: Expanding Ethics Codes To Reflect Change In The Digital Media Age, Ginny Whitehouse

Ginny Whitehouse

Media ethics codes concerning privacy must be updated considering the ease with which information now can be gathered from social networks and disseminated widely. Existing codes allow for deception and privacy invasion in cases of overriding public need when no alternate means are available but do not adequately define what constitutes need or alternate means, or weigh in the harm such acts do to the public trust and the profession. Building on the ethics theories of Sissela Bok and Helen Nissenbaum, balancing tests can be developed under a mixed-rule deontology that confines online misrepresentation and exposing the private information of …