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RESOURCES FOR JOURNALISTS

Journalism ethics sites

This section contains links to major sites dedicated to media ethics and high-quality journalism, such as the Poynter Institute and the Project for Excellence in Journalism. It also has direct links to a number of major journalistic codes of ethics.

Poynter


The Poynter Institute Online – “Everything you need to be a better
journalist”

http://www.journalism.org/
Online home of the Project for Excellence in Journalism

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The Canadian Journalism Project’s online resource for Canadian journalism news and tools.

http://www.caj.ca/aims/index.html
Canadian Association of Journalists’ principles and codes of ethics

http://spj.org/ethicscode.asp
Society of Professional Journalists Code of Ethics

http://www.fpjq.org/
Federation professionelle des journalistes du Quebec

http://www.rtnda.org/ethics/coe.shtml
Radio-Television News Directors Association code of ethics

http://www.spj.org/ethics_listserv.asp
How to subscribe to the SPJ Ethics listserv

http://www.mediawise.org.uk/
The Media Wise Trust, an independent charity set up in 1993 by ‘victims of media abuse’, is supported by concerned journalists, media lawyers and politicians in the UK.

Quick Study:

BOOK: The Elements of Journalism: What Newspeople Should Know and the Public Should Expect, by Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel, New York: Crown Publishers, 2001.

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