Newspaper Guild President Bernie Lunzer questions a newspaper’s decision to seek corporate donations to fund a trip to Afghanistan. Lunzer reports, “A financial arrangement between The New Hampshire Union Leader – the state’s largest daily newspaper – and several Granite State businesses that has allowed the paper’s publisher to report from Afghanistan is pushing the…
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New Guidelines for Journalists
Hamilton Nolan has penned an excellent article on Gawker in response to the recent well-reported incident of a TV journalist who made unrevealed political donations. Nolan offers defining guidelines for journalistic ethics. A few of the points he covered are: Disclosure – Let your readers know where you’re coming from, so they can make informed judgments about…