Around the Net

ONA Leads Way To Build Unique 'Ethics Code'

The Online News Association today launched a 'build your own ethics code' project to help "news organisations, small start-ups and individual bloggers" create their own code of ethics. Made up of a series of Google Docs, the project is freely accessible to all but is still in a crowdsourcing stage, inviting journalists and editors to comment and make suggestions. "No single ethics code can reflect the needs of everyone in our widely varied profession," said Tom Kent, standards editor and deputy managing editor of the Associated Press, in an introduction to the document.

Read the whole story at Journalism.co.uk »

Next story loading loading..

Discover Our Publications