Journalism And Ethics
As times change journalism becomes more and more competitive. Deadlines become tighter, the stories become bigger, and publications struggle to be the best. These factors put individual journalists under a great deal of stress. As a result, many journalists fabricate or plagiarize their stories in hope of not necessarily winning a Pulitzer, but in hope of meeting their deadlines and the demands of their readers.
It is unfortunate that these unethical, and often illegal, practices are so common in the media industry. Names like Janet Cooke and Stephen Glass are familiar names to all journalists as well as to their editors. The good news however, is that while there are so many reasons to copy the work of another, or even make stories up, there are just as many ways to prevent these actions from taking place in journalism.
One thing that can help prevent plagiarism is for individual publications or other media outlets to establish their own codes of ethics. These codes......
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