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How The Social Media Phenomena Of Publishing Private And Personal Information About Prominent Public Figures Is Influencing Ethical Decision Making By Legacy Media Editors, Evelyne Nyakiega Kahungu

Theses & Dissertations

The social media revolution continues to impact legacy media’s ethical decision-making protocols, especially when dealing with private and personal information of public figures published on these platforms by non-legacy media actors. The objectives of this study were: to examine the ethical dilemmas that legacy media editors are confronted with when private and confidential information of public figures is reported by non-legacy media content producers; to determine what considerations legacy media journalists make before publishing that information on their platforms; to assess the ethical decision-making protocols that legacy media editors in Kenya follow when dealing with the private information of public …