1. The Absurd Consequences of a "Right to Privacy"
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2017
   British MP David Davis’s text messages poking fun at the appearance of a female colleague make him the latest whipping boy for those determined to root out sexism and misogyny in public life, the Daily Mail reports. Curiously, they also make him the latest poster boy for exponents of an expansive "right to privacy."
2. Agreement on terms
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2007
   I have come to accept that western journalists cannot accurately, let alone objectively, represent the Middle East and the Arab world. The problem is not that journalists do not always adhere to their own professional codes and methods, though that does happen. It is that even if correspondents strictly obey all the rules, they still present a fundamentally biased and skewed picture of the Middle East.
3. Another Dangerous Rush to Judgment in Syria
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2017
   The U.S. government and the mainstream media have rushed to judgment again, blaming the Syrian government for a new poison-gas attack and ignoring other possibilities, reports Robert Parry.
4. Antiwar.com vs. the Decline of American Journalism
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2017
   What is the "alternative" media? If we look at the phrase itself, it seems to mean the media that presents itself as the alternative to what we call the "corporate media," i.e. the New York Times, the Washington Post, your local rag – in short, the Legacy Media that predominated in those bygone days before the Internet. And yet this whole arrangement seems outdated, to say the least. The Internet has long since been colonized by the corporate giants: BuzzFeed, for example, is regularly fed huge dollops of cash from its corporate owners. And the Legacy Media has adapted to the primacy of online media, however reluctantly and ineptly. So the alternative media isn’t defined by how they deliver the news, but rather by 1) what they judge to be news, and 2) how they report it. And that’s the problem.
5. Beyond the dross
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2010
   Pilger and Platt discuss the craft of journalism.
6. Books of Interest - Sources 58
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2006
   Reviews of books about journalism, media, and research.
7. Canada's journalists cowed into silence while colleagues die in Gaza
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2014
   Rami Rayan, a young Palestinian photojournalist, was the latest reporter to be killed. He was among at least 16 people reportedly killed after an Israeli air strike on a crowded market during a supposed four-hour "truce." The Canadian Association of Journalists (CAJ), which claims to be "the national voice of Canadian journalists", has been noticeably silent. If you check the CAJ's website you won't find so much as a perfunctory statement denouncing the killing of their colleagues in Gaza. Instead, the top item on its website is a story written by members of the association's 'ethics' committee about that old saw: reporters getting too close to their sources.
8. The Cancer in Occupy
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2012
   The Black Bloc anarchists, who have been active on the streets in Oakland and other cities, are the cancer of the Occupy movement. The presence of Black Bloc anarchists — so named because they dress in black, obscure their faces, move as a unified mass, seek physical confrontations with police and destroy property — is a gift from heaven to the security and surveillance state.
9. The CIA's Mop-Up Man: L.A. Times Reporter Cleared Stories With Agency Before Publication
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2014
   A prominent national security reporter for the Los Angeles Times routinely submitted drafts and detailed summaries of his stories to CIA press handlers prior to publication, according to documents obtained by The Intercept.
10. Free Speech and Unsafe Spaces 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Malik criticizes "the blinkered, self-centred, indeed narcissistic, attitudes that shape much contemporary discussion on speech and its limits. Free speech, from this perspective, requires not a robust exchange of ideas but the validation of my views. I should have the right to denounce anyone I wish, but criticism of my views is a denial of my free speech. Vigorously defending oneself against criticism is to deny safe space for one's critics."
11. Hack
    Home Truths about Foreign News
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
    This book is about HACKS - journalists, the men and women who fly into famines and wars and in a few days churn out stories telling the world what has been going on. It shows how HACKS work and the pressures that they face through some of the big news stories and hidden wars of the past decade. It's also about "newspeak" and double talk to square what is actually happening to the complacencies of news organisations at home. Finally, it's about how one HACK thinks; how he has picked his way through the political minefield of journalism and survived with only the loss of a few stories chopped and a few others consigned to the waste bin.
12. JournalismSources.com
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 2017
    A portal featuring news, articles, and resources about journalism, press freedom, free speech, censorship and related topics. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.
13. Journalistic Malpractice at the Post and the Times
    Rejecting the Offer of Evidence of US War Crimes
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Wikileaks source Bradley Manning is evidence that the USA’s two leading news organizations, the Washington Post and the New York Times, are not willing to report critically of the government.
14. Merchants of Doubt
    How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2010   Published: 2012
    Investigative reportage on how private interests and lobbies in America use hired gun scientists to spread doubt and misinformation. The media's binary understanding of balanced repoting has given these individuals a soapbox and allowed the public to believe there are divisions in the mainstream scientific opinion on global warming where none exist.
15. The Missing News 
    Filters and Blind Spots in Canada's Press
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
    Asks a number of questions, including: How well do the news media filter reality, for what purposes, through what processes and in whose interests? How do newspapers and TV stations choose what news is printed or aired, which letters will be published, or who will be accorded credibility?
16. No-Fault Journalism at the New York Times
    The Case of Wen Ho Lee
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1999   Published: 2014
    The New York Times,?without whose agency Wen Ho Lee would never have spent a day in a prison cell,?perhaps not even have lost his job, is now, with consummate effrontery, urging?that an investigation of the bungled prosecution take place.
17. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - December 20, 2016
    Fake News
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2016
    "Fake news" is the latest mania to convulse the mainstream media. All at once, we're being subjected to an outbreak of hand-wringing articles and commentary about obscure websites which are supposedly poisoning public opinion and undermining democracy by spreading "fake news." Since we don't like to be left out when a new fad comes on the scene, Other Voices is jumping on the bandwagon too, with this, our last issue of 2016, devoted to "fake news." Our focus, however, is not so much on the crackpots and trolls making mischief on the fringes, but on the dominant actors in the fake news business: governments and the corporate and state media.
18. Our Generation
    Volume 3 Number 2
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1964
    
19. Pay-to-Print
    "News" Stories for Cash Scandal Rocks India
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    On "paid news".
20. The pursuit of Julian Assange is an assault on freedom and a mockery of journalism
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    Four years ago, a barely noticed Pentagon document, leaked by WikiLeaks, described how WikiLeaks and Assange would be destroyed with a smear campaign leading to "criminal prosecution". We are witnessing the implementation of that plan.
21. Radical Digressions 4
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 2006   Published: 2008
    
22. Radical Digressions 5
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 2008
    
23. The real first casualty of war
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    Censorship by journalism is virulent in Britain and the US - and it means the difference between life and death for people in faraway countries.
24. Shadows of Liberty
    Resource Type: Film
    First Published: 2012
    Examines the new media monopoly by corporations in America and the public battle for truth and democracy.
25. The Silent Revolution
    Media, Democracy, and the Free Trade Debate
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    
26. The Sources HotLink 
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 1996   Published: 2009
    A website and newsletter dealing with media relations strategies.
27. Sources Select Resources
    Reviews and information about print and online resources for journalists and researchers
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 1977   Published: 2009
    Reviews and information about print and online resources for journalists and researchers.
28. Spinwars
    Politics and New Media
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1999
    An examination of media manipulation in late 20th Century North American politics.
29. The Sunday Times' Snowden Story is Journalism at its Worst - and Filled with Falsehoods
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Western journalists claim that the big lesson they learned from their key role in selling the Iraq War to the public is that it's hideous, corrupt and often dangerous journalism to give anonymity to government officials to let them propagandize the public, then uncritically accept those anonymously voiced claims as Truth. But they've learned no such lesson. That tactic continues to be the staple of how major U.S. and British media outlets "report," especially in the national security area.
30. Telling It
    Women and Language Across Cutures
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    
31. 2009 Journalist Conference in Israel: No News
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    The support provided by Israel's primary media to the security and political moves of the government - any government - is not new in Israel. The perception that media is committed to the ethics of the "public's right to know," in numerous cases even against strong currents that demand the silencing and concealment of information, serves more as a title for academic conferences and less as a rule that guides the media establishment in Israel. Not only this, but the journalists' association adopted the official governmental approach in relation to international forums concerned with human rights. This approach places obstacles of suspicion and hostility before anyone who does not follow the official line of Israeli patriotism. Legitimate criticism of unprofessional and unethical conduct of media that volunteers for national or military service is countered with the contention that the source of criticism is anti-Semitic.
32. War, Peace and the Media
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1983   Published: 1985
    Zwicker argues that press coverage of the USSR is "profoundly uninformative, a journalistic yawn that is helping us sleepwalk toward the biggest slumber of all time: nuclear war."
33. What is Objective Journalism?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Despite objectivity being widely accepted as a norm in journalism, Edwards discusses how opinion and bias are still an inherent part of 'reporting the facts.'
34. When journalists forget that murder is murder
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2001
    When Israelis are involved, our moral compass, our ability to report the truth, dries up.
35. Who Is An Objective Journalist?
    Agents of the Status Quo
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    The false dichotomy between journalists and activists.
36. Why does the language of journalism fail indigenous people?
    A journalist with indigenous roots reflects on the making of We Are Still Here: A Story from Native Alaska.
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    A journalist with Indigenous roots reflects on the difficulty of doing justice to the community she is filming a documentary about. Historical misrepresentation due to lack of cross-cultural understanding has led to a distrust of the media.
37. Wikileaks - The Smear and the Denial
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    The Internet has revealed a chasm separating the corporate media from readers and viewers. Previously, the divide was hidden by the simple fact that journalists monopolised the means of mass communication. Dissent was restricted to a few lonely lines on the letter’s page, if that.
38. Wild West Journalism
    Outlaws, Cowpokes and a Eunuched Press
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    Journalism is not dead nor is anthropology. Both are undergoing seismic transformations while under attack from a neoliberal culture that devalues the public and disparages the truth.
39. The work of authentic journalists is the most important thing for social movements
    How Mercedes Osuna became a rebel with a cause
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Not an activist, social organizer nor a defender: Mercedes Osuna would rather define her work as human labor, something that she has dedicated an entire life to. She was born in a place were true words are heard with the heart and she lived out her convictions at a young age.

Experts on Ethique Journalistique in the Sources Directory

1. Barrie Zwicker