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Chapter 2

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If you’d like to be inspired by works of journalism, try exploring the Pulitzer Prize winners
To examine the roots of “The Elements of Journalism” cited in this chapter, the result of a task force of journalists in the 1990s.
Former New York Times reporter Doug McGill writes on his website, “In the 2010’s, my growing interest in meditation and Buddhadharma led me to an ongoing project to reconcile journalistic free speech with the moral imperatives of right speech.” Read more at The McGill Report.
As you consider independence from sources, see the NPR ethics guidelines under “Impartiality”.
Fact checking is one key to moving beyond a journalism of assertion and on to verification. Fact checking is a project of Annenberg Public Policy Center to verify claims made in public. The organizers will take your questions at www.factcheck.org/askfactcheck/. And if you wonder about news coverage of science, try www.factcheck.org/scicheck/.
Edited by Craig Silverman, “Verification Handbook for Investigative Reporting” includes how to verify digital social media such as photos and videos.
Joan Biskupic, Janet Roberts and John Shiffman, “The Echo Chamber,” Reuters.com, December 8, 2014, accessed June 22, 2015.
Andrew R. Cline, “Death in Gambella: What Many Heard, What One Blogger Saw, and Why the Professional News Media Ignored it, ”Journal of Mass Media Ethics 22 (2007): 280-299.
Sheila Coronel, Steve Coll and Derek Kravitz, “Rolling Stone and UVA: The Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism Report: An Anatomy of a Journalistic Failure,” Rolling Stone, April 5, 2015, accessed June 22, 2015.
Michael Fancher, “What independence means to this paper,” The Seattle Times, January 30, 2005, accessed June 21, 2012.
Leonard Pitts, Jr., “Why Citizen Journalism Doesn’t Measure Up,” The Dallas Morning News, October 6, 2010, accessed June 21, 2012.
James Poniewozik, “If the Journalism Business Fails, Who Pays for Journalism?” Time.com, June 8, 2009, accessed June 21, 2012.
Clay Shirky, “The Columbia Report on Rolling Stone’s Rape Story is Bad for Journalism,” The New Republic, April 7, 2015, accessed June 22, 2015.
Judith Shulevitz, “What happened at Rolling Stone was not Jackie’s fault,” Columbia Journalism Review, December 6, 2014, accessed June 22, 2015.
“This is NPR. And These are the Standards of Our Journalism,” accessed June 21, 2012.
Erik Ugland and Jennifer Henderson, “Who is a Journalist and Why Does it Matter? Disentangling the Legal and Ethical Arguments,” Journal of Mass Media Ethics 22 (2007): 241-261.