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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

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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

"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

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By Catherine E. Jewell & Amanda C. Bright

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