Week 10: Ethics and Codes of Practice continued

Ethical Issues in Journalism

#BUDigitalJournalism hashtag

Self-driven Uber car kills pedestrian

Quebec Journalist arrested

Cambridge Analytica and Facebook

“… we just put information into the bloodstream of the internet, and then, and then watch it grow, give it a little push every now and again… like a remote control. It has to happen without anyone thinking, ‘that’s propaganda’, because the moment you think ‘that’s propaganda’, the next question is, ‘who’s put that out?’.”

Codes of Practice

• Canadian Association of Journalists
• Canadian Association of Electronic Journalists
• J-Source List

Sources and protection of sources
Research
Interviews
Verification fact checking: How do you know that? How do they know that?

Issues specific to Digital Journalism
Information wants to be free vs Digital Millennium Copyright Act
Verification of images
Copyright

• Creative Commons
• For a creator the only thing worse than piracy is obscurity. 

Authentication and Verification

• Manipulation of images