I am attempting to embed a Vine video at the bottom of this post that chronicles our ethics session in 6 seconds. I hope it works (Zach's 1 second at the end is priceless).
This afternoon, we discussed ethics. It was only this past year that I think I did justice to teaching media ethics. After learning what I did today, I feel I will do even better.
"A gut feeling does NOT cut it when it comes to considering the ethics of decisions." Rather, a reliance on ethical principals is what needs to guide a journalist though ethical dilemmas. This nugget of wisdom from Steve's presentation "Adventures in Ethics" something I haven't really stressed to my students before, but definitely will now.
Another theme I noticed from our presentation, and one that has also been at the forefront of other sessions we've had, is the idea that a journalist MUST be informed - not only about laws, rules, and guidelines, but also the subject matter. I interviewed Brandon Quester this evening, and he said a journalist needs to be more of an expert on the subject than the actual subject.
Research, research, research. Data, statistical analyses, interviews... This is a such a good refresher for me. In fact, this whole experience here at the Reynolds Institute so far (all three and a half days!) has taken me back to my days as an undergraduate at the Newhouse School at Syracuse University. There, I remember feeling like a real journalist (not just a student journalist). Many years have passed between my days of writing investigative articles for the Daily Orange and my life now - in a classroom teaching kids how to think and act and be journalists. This refresher - on ethics, news writing, photojournalism, editorial and opinion writing, etc. is so... exhilarating.
I am so grateful for this experience. Even though I have been working for over 5 hours - nonstop on my story and blogging and figuring out new technology, I am happy. I love this.
Meghann Peterson
Chanhassen High School
Chanhassen, Minn.
Crap. The Vine didn't embed. Any suggestions?
ReplyDeleteYes - (and you didn't sign your post) -
ReplyDeleteWhen you're in the edit mode (go back to blogger, hover under the post's title, click on EDIT), look to the top left above the text box and find the buttons marked COMPOSE / HTML . Hold on to that for a second.
At the bottom of your post, highlight and COPY all of that code starting with iframe and ending with script, then hit delete. Again, copy it first, then delete.
Then click on HTML at the top left, go to the bottom of the post, and PASTE the iframe code there. Then on the upper right of the browser window, find the "PREVIEW" button and click it. Take a look at the post. Look good? If so, you're set. If not, find me at michael.c.simons@gmail.com
You are awesome. Thank you so much! (And I did catch my error with the sign out, but thanks for that too! I was too preoccupied with my video!).
ReplyDeleteLike the video. Way to go.
ReplyDeleteSteve Elliott
Arizona State University
Phoenix
Very cool video. I think the Ethics talk was also very AWESOME! I will be using some of those ideas in my classroom lectures
ReplyDeleteRudy De La Torre
Escondido High School
Escondido, CA