Inspriring Integrity: McCarthy’s Spotlight Writer and Director Tom McCarthy’s 2015 Best Picture Academy Award Winner Spotlight tells the true story of a group of The Boston Globe journalists working to uncover systemic pedophilia within Boston area branches of the Roman Catholic Church in the early 2000s. Within the bowels of The Boston Globe‚ this group staffed a small and intensely dedicated investigate journalism unit called “Spotlight.” The title‚ however‚ also reflects the larger political
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The First Amendment allows for the freedom of the press‚ and presents a shield of protection for journalists. It also gives the public their rights to the truth‚ and the journalist’s freedom to seek and report the truth. However‚ corporate business interests can often conflict with the use of the First Amendment and affect a journalist’s ethical commitment to it. This is portrayed in All the President’s Men‚ Shattered Glass‚ and Absence of Malice. The First Amendment of the Bill of Rights‚ U.S.
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that while The Post is not a documentary‚ it is an entertainment film serving a purpose to share with the audience of one the most important and groundbreaking moments in American history’s journalism. The Post shows the courage and curiosity of journalists working for the print that discovered government secrecy’s regarding the Vietnam War. Their ‘holy curiosity’ allowed them to go to great lengths to retrieve details and official government papers that would put their careers and even the entire
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of author and journalist Jonah Lehrer‚ it was a challenge to find new and refreshing concepts and to publish information that was purely credible. Lehrer’s first offense was reusing some of his works for a different publication. Whether or not plagiarizing your own work is ethical or not is seemly controversial. Another offense of Lehrer’s includes the fabrication of quotes from the renowned musician Bob Dylan in his best-selling novel Imagine (Ronson). He was exposed by journalist Michael
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then came the radio‚ the newspaper‚ magazines‚ television and now the Internet. The Internet has certainly transformed the work for journalists. Digital tools have made it easier for news gathering‚ communication‚ editing and production is now a lot more portable‚ inexpensive and powerful. This has also resulted to many online users assuming the roles of ‘journalists’ by creating news-related weblogs. In the era of mobile digital technology‚ we now have a mobile connection to the web through a
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It is considered the lowest level because many professional journalists believe that only a trained journalist can understand the rigors and ethics involved in reporting the news. Additionally‚ citizen journalists are not held to the same standard as professionals‚ leaving room for bias and mistakes in their work. Nonetheless‚ citizen journalism is vital to society. Despite its seemingly
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were unexpectedly thrust into the spotlight‚ raising questions of whether reporters should have differing standards based on who they are interviewing. This requires journalists to analyze “distinguishing between procedural fairness and fairness in performance‚” as Jay Rosen told the Freedom Forum panel. Just because a journalist followed all of the rules does not mean she was acting ethically to minimize harm. Though the support at the public forum was based mostly on television rather than personal
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Working in the Culture Industries Outline and evaluate the impact of new technologies on media organisations and the working lives of media professionals? In this essay I will be discussing new technologies and the impact it has on the ever growing industry that is the media‚ but in particular I will be looking at how new technologies have had an impact on journalism. Technology has not only changed the way our media is produced‚ but it has also changed how we receive‚ believe‚ read‚ contribute
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plays out in legacy media organizations • Normalization of blogs • Most journalists used bl;ogs on the basis of the existing norms and practices (Singer 2005) • Blogs are used by mainstream journalists in ways that reify traditional norms‚ and shore up their professional claim to authority even as the new tools also gradually push a more subtle evolution in formats and form of interaction (Robinsons 2006) • Journalists professional culture exhibits strong inertia‚
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of reality (McNair 2001:21). With its revolutionary role as resource of communication‚ newspapers whether printed or digital‚ get complete attention from everyone. In order to attract people‚ journalist use different artifices to produce news and advertisements of all kinds in a brief manner. Journalists use various Linguistic devices such as syntactic phonological‚ morphological‚ semantic‚ lexical‚ rhetorical devices‚ plenty of figurative language in taglines‚ headlines and slogans and so on. Language
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