Topics

Topics covered by the project include:

• Accepting money from donors and foundations
• Accuracy
• Advertising and News: Where’s the line?
• Audio
• Awards and contests
• Balance and fairness
• Bomb and other threats
• Censorship
• Children: coverage, images and interviews
• Clickbait and metrics
• Community activities
• Concealing your identity as a journalist
• Confidential sources
• Corrections
• Data journalism
• Diversity
• Employees’ financial interests
• Freelance work by employees
• Freelancers, “Fixers” and Translators
• Gifts, Free Travel and Other Perks
• Hate speech and actions
• Hostage situations
• Interactives
• Interviewing
• Journalism funded by interested organizations
• Mental Health and Suicide
• Naming criminal suspects
• Obscenities, vulgarities and slurs
• Online commenting
• Personal ethics statements by staff
• Photos and video
• Plagiarism and attribution
• Political activities by staff
• Privacy and reporting on personal lives
• Quotations
• Racial, ethnic, religious, gender and sexual orientation references
• Removing material from your archives
• Reporting on your own organization
• Robot journalism
• Sensational and Gory Material
• Social networks
• Sources: Reliability and Attribution
• User-generated content
• Virtual Reality Journalism
• Withholding names and information