Infusing
Ethics in
- Constructivist: All learning is contextual
- Case Study: One specific program
- Setting: Daily newspaper and yearbook
- Participants: Chair, adviser, two editors
- Interviews: Semi-structured
- Online survey: Staff members
- Student training highly variable
- Budgetary and timing constraints
- Six areas of need:
- professional standards, conflict of interest, copyright, diversity and bias, obscenity, fact checking
Main Themes
- Lack of knowledge of professional journalistic ethics
- Compromised credibility for news media (student, too)
- Awareness of ethical training in other paradigms
- Benefits (cost, flexibility) with web-based instruction
- Comfortability with online learning
- Positive outcomes of systematic instructional design
- Ubiquitous summer ethics training, little else
Review of Literature
wide variation in method, delivery, comprehensiveness depending on program
Methods:
Findings:
front-end analysis to fill curricular,
pedagogical gaps in ethics knowledge
Methodology & Findings
- Typeform as online delivery tool (logic jumps)
- Formative assessments with feedback
- Summative, long-answer mock scenario
- Data turned into EICs for remediation
Applicable to context and learners
Training & Field Testing
Limitations: Buy-in from student media editors; not comprehensive or foolproof
The Purpose
Goal: Tool to help student media staff
recognize ethical issues or questions
- Inconsistent training before college level
- Quick involvement in student media
- AEJMC accreditation competencies
- Tightening space in the journalism curriculum
- Increasing speed of news delivery
- Mounting pressures for high-quality journalism
provide small university journalism program
a timely, low-cost method to introduce
journalistic ethics
.
Field Testing & Early Results
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Warbler Yearbook staff
"I'm surprised that she got those questions wrong."
"It was really different from the regular ethics training."
"It only took 20 minutes."
"It made me think about a lot of things."
"I was surprised it was about EIU student media specifically."
Student Media
THE RESEARCH AND CREATION
OF A SELF-GUIDED, ONLINE ETHICS TRAINING FOR COLLEGE JOURNALISTS
By Catherine E. Jewell & Amanda C. Bright