http://www.cbsc.ca/english/codes/codes.htm
Canadian Broadcast Standards
Council
This web site offers a
professional model for other networks with their CAB Code of Ethics,
printed and described in detail on this web site. Links to the role
of the Council, application of broadcasting act and regulations,
broadcaster responsibility on the air, and many other topics of
interest are linked and available starting here.
http://www.rtndacanada.com/ethics.htm
Radio and Television News
Director’s Association
This web
site has codes of ethics and standards across the half-century,
as well as a history of the association.
http://www.rtnda.org/rtnda/coe.shtml
Radio and Television News
Directors Association (RTNDA)
This
web site lists the code of ethics adopted by the Board of Directors
of the RTNDA.
http://www.cjr.org/year/96/1/60minutes.asp
Columbia Journalism Review
CBS's
decision last October to kill its interview with the highest-ranking
executive ever to blow the whistle on the tobacco industry produced
noteworthy results. This site examines the controversy over the
aborted 60 Minutes tobacco segment, which has raised numerous
issues and questions on news practices, policies, and ethics.
http://www.policy.com/issuewk/98/0706/index.html
Issue of the Week: Ethics
and the media
This site describes
current issues in the media and gives the pros and cons regarding
the ethics of each.
http://www.journalism.sfsu.edu/www/ethics.html
Journalism Ethics
The
web site has interesting current topics on fairness, bias, and judgment,
Asia media ethics, notes and readings from course materials, a worksheet
for ethical decision making and more. A very useful site for those
interested in media ethics.
http://www.centralindiana.com/ethics
How far is too far? A
discussion of media ethics
When does a newspaper
go too far in reporting the news? At what point does news cease
to be news and become sensationalism? Search current articles that
discuss these points.