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'Citizen McCaw,' Pentagon News Analysts, More ...

The Ethics Committee comes across far more ethics-related publications than we can absorb and comment on in a thoughtful way, but it's often a waste to not at least mention them.

Today, for example, Chairman Andy Schotz sent the committee a couple of interesting articles I thought you might like:

A Fight for Journalism Values in Santa Barbara
John Diaz at the San Francisco Chronicle: "Citizen McCaw" delivers chapter and verse of how News-Press owner Wendy McCaw poisoned a climate of ethics and professionalism.

Behind TV Analysts, Pentagon's Hidden Hand
A Pentagon information apparatus has used television-news analysts in a campaign to generate favorable news coverage of the administration’s wartime performance. | Responses

I usually track journalism-ethics-related news on my feed reader, using Google Alerts. Here are a few more recent pieces from around the Web:

Chinese Academy Asks U.S. Journalists to Review 'Creed'
A Chinese higher-education academy has responded to CNN and other Western media that delivered "distorted reports and offensive comments on China."

Canadian Journalism Ethicist Heads to U.S.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has selected Stephen J.A. Ward to be the first James E. Burgess Chair and Professor in Journalism Ethics and the director of a new Center for Journalism Ethics beginning in August 2008.

Redefining Journalism Ethics to Include Social Media
Liz Pope at SpinSucks.com and DenverPost.com: A code of journalism ethics needs to be redefined to include bloggers.

Do you like these news snippets? Let us know.

My thanks to Amy Gahran at Poynter Online for helping inspire this post with her "Mini-Tidbits" on journalism and technology.