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Towards A News Industry Framework For Tackling The Vice Of Brown Envelope Journalism: Perceptions Of Journalists And Public Relations Practitioners In Uganda, Sandra Lamwaka
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Journalism, just like any other institution in society has been tainted with acts of corruption and bribery or what is scholarly known as Brown Envelope Journalism (BEJ). The practice takes shape in form of cash, gifts/ freebies, and incentives, given to a journalist to influence the reportage of news. This has affected the quality of news and undermined fundamental journalistic principles. Anchored on McQuail’s theory of Media and Society and the Social Responsibility Theory of the Press, this study sought to examine journalists and PR practitioners’ perceptions of BEJ and what the industry can employ to address the vice The …
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
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 …