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v7n1 Judith Townend examines the Popbitch celebrity newsletter and wonders whether teasing (and sometimes spiteful) gossip can ever be justified
The ethics of the ‘blind story’ and ‘fair game’ gossip: Examining Popbitch
by Judith Townend

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v7n1 Nicholas Jones on the ethics of saying ‘sorry’ and the part apologies play in the hyper-personalisation of political coverage
The hyperpersonalisation of political coverage: The ethics of saying sorry
by Nicholas Jones

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v7n1 Almost a decade after the collapse of Enron, Shannon Bowen suggests that it is time to ask what lessons have been learned from the unethical conduct of the organisation
Have we learned lessons from inside the crooked E, Enron?
by Shannon Bowen

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v6n3-4 In his Richard Dunn Memorial Lecture at the MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival in August 2009, Robert Peston asked: “Will the new digital news industry promote or undermine the wide distribution of high quality news, which is so essential to a thriving democracy?”
In the new digital world. There is a stronger need than ever for subsidised, public-service news
by Robert Peston

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v6n3-4 Financial blogs show us the extent to which the media’s institutional constraints were both an asset and a major liability when covering the biggest financial story of our time, according to top media blogger Kristine Lowe
How blogs challenged and transformed mainstream media coverage of the credit crisis
by Kristine Lowe

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v6n3-4 Francesco Guerrera argues that journalists were lied to by many who were benefiting from the boom. But they were not good enough to see through the lies
Why generalists were not equipped to cover the complexities of the crisis
by Francesco Guerrera

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v6n3-4 Nicholas Jones reveals how the government sought to manipulate the media coverage of the crash. Once again leaks to favoured journalists and briefings to selected news outlets were the order of the day
Media manipulation behind the Great Crash of 2008
by Nicholas Jones

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v6n2 Jacquie L’Etang traces the history of the ‘Radical PR’ group, assesses its achievements to date – and looks to the future
‘Radical PR’ – catalyst for change or an aporia?
by Jacquie L’Etang

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v6n2 Integrating the shadow: A Jungian approach to professional ethics in public relations
by Johanna Fawkes

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v6n1 Learning from the experts: How ethics and moral philosophy are taught at leading English-speaking institutions
by Tom Cooper

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v6n1 Printing devils: Reflections on the British press, the problem of ‘evil’ and fables of social dis-ease
by John Tulloch

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v5n3 Spiral of cynicism: Are media researchers mere observers?
by Gitte Meyer, Anker Brink Lund

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v5n1-2 ‘”Maddy” mania’: John Mair explores some of the ethical issues arising from the global media-hype surrounding the disappearance of Madeleine McCann
The McCanns and the media: A morality tale for our times?
by John Mair

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v4n4 The growing calls in Kenya for the media to put their houses in order
Time to harvest? Media, corruption and elections in Kenya
by Fredrick Mudhai

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v4n3 Loath to Admit: Pressures on the Ethical Disclosure of News Release Sources by Journalists
by Peter Simmons

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v4n1-2 Special issue on ethics and the Internet
International news on the internet: Why more is less
by Chris Paterson

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