• by Ray Schultz , August 8, 2023

New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute has launched a journalistic ethnics initiative backed in part by a $395,000 grant from OpenAI. 

The initiative also includes $50,000 in support from the Carter Journalism Institute’s Journalism Venture Capital Fund.

Stephen Adler, editor in chief of Reuters from 2011 to 2021, will lead the Ethics and Journalism initiative. 

“As trust in the media declines, and advances in technology pose fresh challenges, practicing journalism ethically is more important than it’s ever been,” Adler says. 

The program will bring leading thinkers and practitioners to campus for workshops and discussions that will also include Carter Journalism Institute faculty.

“All of our students as well as the wider community of journalists will benefit from this deeper immersion in the difficult ethical issues that we face,” adds Stephen Solomon, professor of journalism and director of the Carter Journalism Institute.