CHAPTER 14 QUESTIONS

1.     OBJECTIVITY – as a journalist one must always eliminate bias and judgment while interviewing and writing their story. This involves:

a.     Interviewing and including information from all sides of the story.

b.     Having an un-attached interest in the story; writing stories on events not actually involved in.

 

2.     THOROUGHNESS – as a journalist one must always be sure their research and writing is complete with correct spellings, grammer, dates, times, places, facts, etc. This involves:

a.     Re-reading stories several times before being printed.

b.     Checking and re-checking with sources to make sure information and spelling of names are correct.

c.      Making sure all the research obtained came from reliable and valid sources.

 

3.     ACCURACY – as a journalist one must always be certain (accurate) that any names, dates, times, places, photos, etc are truthful depictions of the actual event in the story. This involves:

a.     Checking and re-checking with sources.

b.     Making sure all the research obtained came from valid and reliable sources.

 

4.     FAIRNESS – as a journalist one must always be fair and truthful in their depictions of the events in their stories. This involves:

a.     Always depicting the events as they actually occurred.

b.     Always reporting multiple sides of the story, never just one.

 

5.     TRANSPARENCY – as a journalist one must always consider their audience, more recently, those in the audience want to be apart of the news. As a journalist one should always try and make that involvement happen. This includes:

a.     Setting up places where people can comment or give more information on an issue or event, if done online.

b.     Give a mailing address or “hot line” number where people can comment or give more information.

c.      Papers can set up blog links on their sites for people to write their own version of the events, from which journalist can draw information from (only after information has been cleared true).