Part Four - Understanding Media Issues

Chapter 16 - Accuracy and Libel

• Student Press Law Center
• Reporter's Committee for Freedom of the Press - excellent site for updates on media law
• Electronic Frontier Foundation
• Findlaw - Internet legal resources
• Cyberspace Law for Non-lawyers (a great site with clear definitions of libel, copyright issues and others)
• Legal Information Institute
• Freedom Forum
• American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
• ACLU's site on the Broadcast Decency Act
• Full Text of decision in Reno v. ACLU
• Electronic Privacy Information Center
• Freedom of Information Center
• U.S. Copyright Office
• Firstgov umbrella site for U.S. government agencies

Chapter 17 - Media Ethics

• Journalism Ethics Cases Online - great cases from Fineline, an ethics newsletter that discontinued publication. Cases archived by Indiana University School of Journalism
• "Thinking Clearly," Ethics case studies (with teaching notes). Wonderful in-depth case studies of Columbine, Minnesota cheating scandal, Richard Jewell, Watergate and others by the Pew Center for Excellence in Journalism.
• Media ethics resource file - from the Poynter Institute; good articles and cases
• Deciding when - or if - to name victims of sexual asssault - thoughtful discussion by Bob Steele, ethics director of Poynter Institute
• ABC and Food Lion - the ethics questions - discussion from Poynter Institute
• Ethics on the World Wide Web - comprehensive links compiled by Paul Lester of California State University at Fullerton
• Media Ethics Resources on the WWW - Canadian cases and resources
• Codes of ethics from newspapers around the country
• Codes of Ethics Online - over 850 codes from all types of industries; from the Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions, University of Illinois.
• Ethics codes from Radio and Television News Directors' Association
• Ethics code from Public Relations Society of America
• Journal of Mass Media Ethics - abstracts, not the full articles
• Ethics for Digital Information Providers -- a survey and some helpful information from Janna Quitney Anderson of Elon College
• EthicNet - European codes of ethics
• Institute for Global Ethics - not media specific but interesting cases and links
• FAIR - Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting - ethical issues and special sections on racism and women's issues
• Ethics resources from the Silha Center for the Study of Media Ethics and Law - University of Minnesota

Chapter 18 - Multicultural Sensitivity

• How Race is Lived in America, New York Times Pulitzer-Prize winning series

• Newswatch - articles and resources, many aimed at college students, from The Center for Integration and Improvement of Journalism, San Francisco State University
• Newswatch diversity style guide - also from The Center for Integration and Improvement of Journalism, San Francisco State University
• The Multicultural Skyscraper - the European Web site for minorities and the media
• Diversity Update - resources from The Poynter Institute
• Let's Do It Better - diversity workshops by the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University, featuring good examples of multicultural coverage by the media
• Diversity Web - resources for colleges in diversity training and research from the Association of American Colleges and Universities
• FAIR -Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (many articles on gender and diversity)
• Diversity programs from Freedom Forum
• Diversity publications from Freedom Forum

• National Association of Minorities in Journalism
• Maynard Institute - resources and training workshops for diversity
• Unity: Journalists of Color - articles, job opportunities, resources
• National Association of Black Journalists
• National Association of Hispanic Journalists
• Native American Journalists Association
• National Gay and Lesbian Association
• South Asian Journalists Association
• Asian-American Journalists Association
• Association for Women Journalists
• Association for Women in Sports Media
• National Federation of Press Women
• Association for Women in Communications
• International Women's Media Foundation - articles and reports about media women nationally and internationally
• Journalism and Women Symposium - resources and job