School of Journalism and Mass Communications. Thanks for stopping by to visit my page. This is the jumping-off point for students in my classes, home of information about my courses, projects and writings, and repository for all sorts of personal stuff of dubious value. At the University of Illinois.

Can business ethics get any worse? Later this summer, the Justice Department is expected to announce charges. Have you ever tipped your auto mechanic for changing your oil? .

Dispatches from a Northeastern University student abroad. NU Journalism in Spain 2015. I used to always compare points in .

A space for conversation and reflection on graduate life. Have you ever wanted to join a volunteer trip that asks you to pay to travel abroad? Have you noticed the increase among college students for a desire to travel to exotic destinations while volunteering in local communities? What are the ethical considerations of voluntourism? Are volunteers doing more harm than good? How about the unintended harm ca.

WRITING and EDITING IN THE Mediated PUBLIC SPHERE. Page on your article draft for a message from the reviewing editor with suggestions about a new introduction. The suggestion to re-frame the entry by indicating that public-sphere discourse has become read-write, rather than read-only, resonates with much of what you realized over the course of last semester.

Before the semester officially wraps up, I wanted to reflect once more on Prof. Specifically in terms of fake news, media ownership and the difference between legal and ethical- all of which we discussed during his few weeks with us. Kennedy used a CNN Money article.

Truth and Trust in Media. Looking at my personal ethics code. Objectivity is an ideal but rarely a possibility. Be fair, be honest, be balanced to an appropriate extent but understand that total neutrality is not always a good thing.

Journalism as a game? We use skills to detect and follow clues, negotiate answers and assemble pieces. The audience chooses from several media and their demands prevail. Both exist, you choose, and if print is dying, long live e-print. So do they vex over anything? Amelia Murphy loves the creativity of fashion.