SPJ CODE OF ETHICS
Pick a working journalist or news media outlet and examine what sort of ethics they appear to use. Applying the SPJ Code of Ethics to the their news coverage, you will critique their ethical efforts. Pick at least five stories that have appeared under a reporter’s byline, or five stories the media out has covered since Jan. 1, 2019 to the present day. Regardless of whom you pick, your job is to identify how well the journalist or news agency appears to have met the SPJ Code of Ethics in their reporting. Use specific examples to illustrate how well or poorly they have met the tenets of the code. The completed assignment will be written in news style. There will be a lead, followed by the details of the story. Examples will be provided. The assignment will follow AP style and rules of grammar. The finished work will be in 12-point Times or Times New Roman. The work will be at least 650 words and not more than 900 words. You will add a source list after your three full pages minimum. Pick a working journalist or news media outlet and examine what sort of ethics they appear to use. Applying the SPJ Code of Ethics to the their news coverage, you will critique their ethical efforts. Pick at least five stories that have appeared under a reporter’s byline, or five stories the media out has covered since Jan. 1, 2019 to the present day. Regardless of whom you pick, your job is to identify how well the journalist or news agency appears to have met the SPJ Code of Ethics in their reporting. Use specific examples to illustrate how well or poorly they have met the tenets of the code. The completed assignment will be written in news style. There will be a lead, followed by the details of the story. Examples will be provided. The assignment will follow AP style and rules of grammar. The finished work will be in 12-point Times or Times New Roman. The work will be at least 650 words and not more than 900 words. You will add a source list after your three full pages minimum.