Journalism ethics in the digital age
Poynter convened a symposium in New York Oct. 23 at the Paley Center for Media. The event featured John Paton, Clay Shirky, Eric Deggans, Ann Friedman, Gilad Lotan, Vadim Lavrusik, danah boyd, David Folkenflik & others.
Livestream: Watch Poynter symposium on journalism ethics in the digital age | Poynter.Poynter is convening a symposium in New York today at the Paley Center for Media, in partnership with craigconnnects, the Web-based initi...
Poynter Institute symposium on journalism ethics, trying to make some history here #PoynterEthics ow.ly/i/13aRP ow.ly/i/13aRZ
"I really am a nerd," says @craignewmark, who underwrote #PoynterEthics. http://pic.twitter.com/IsXQDJrU
“Retweeting saves me the burden of original thought,” @craignewmark says. #PoynterEthics
.@craignewmark says his hope for today is to see us move the needle a little bit towards increasing trust in journalism. #PoynterEthics
Restoring trustworthiness to newsHey there, folks, I'm speaking at the Poynter Journalism Ethics Symposium today. I gave my speech a little earlier, and this is what I ta...
I know @craignewmark means well, but gosh is he wrong about how to fix press ethics. forbes.com/sites/jeffberc…- Folks, @craignewmark and I are talking how to improve the quality of news in the comments section here. Get in there. forbes.com/sites/jeffberc…
- Director of Pew's Project for Excellence in Journalism Tom Rosenstiel continued with a session on how people consume news.
RT @stevebuttry: Norms & ethics of journalism have grown in response to the public & the market, not from “planet journalism,” @tbr1 says. #PoynterEthics- Ethics come from the street & what works for audience. Disruption today coming from need to better understand the audience #PoynterEthics
Moderator for first #PoynterEthics panel: @jxpaton, #DigitalFirst CEO http://pic.twitter.com/HtAfHbOM- Clay Shirky presented this paper at the symposium before a panel discussion of the subject, "The Truth: Is It Possible in the Digital Era?" Panelists were: Steve Myers, Adam Hochberg and Craig Silverman.
- Shirky: 'We are indeed less willing to agree on what constitutes truth' | Poynter.Here's what the "post-fact" literature has right: the Internet allows us to see what other people actually think. This has turned out to ...
"There is not statement that you cannot find someone who publicly denies that it is not true." @cshirky #PoynterEthics
1 approach: You can adopt "we have no idea what is right" range of opinion reporting #PoynterEthics
Clay Shirky: big change for reporters is identifying for the public who is a "relevant actor" in the search for truth. #PoynterEthics
Steve Myers: Politicians are savvy enough not to use an incorrect fact - they conflate two facts and twist the truth. #poynterethics
Fact-checking is like a teenager: it has a lot of potential, but we don't know what it is yet, @myersnews #poynterethics
"The public is overwhelmingly in favor of vigorous fact checking" -@clayshirky #poynterethics- .@jeffjarvis: We can’t “ghetto-ize” fact-checking separately from news articles. #PoynterEthics
- @Deggans: If every reporter attempts truth-checking, it will feel like everyone has an opinion column. #poynterethics
