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NPR last week replaced its old code, The NPR Code of Ethics and Practices, with a new ethics handbook that seems to direct journalists to abandon reportage that strives for balance at the cost of accuracy. ...

Already, some NPR journalists are grappling with this new code of ethics and how, exactly, their reportage will fit (or not) into the new guideline to be "impartial" and "fair to the truth."
And already, listeners – including myself – have noticed NPR journalists being a bit more dogged about calling out dubious facts when they are presented by advocates for a particular side of a story.

...Chris Bowers has pointed me to a Daily Kos action item: a petition to NPR thanking the institution for its new handbook's rejection of false balance.

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If your "public editor" is positing this idea and asking for input from a comment section on the internet (nothing personal, commenters), that's a good sign you need to hire a new "public editor":...

In the sense that the basic premise of what news reporters do for a living is presenting factual information to their audience, then yes, [news] reporters should probably call someone out when they lie.

[This is of course related to the same NYT blog post which recently inspired the Vanity Fair "should we be spelling vigilantes" post. -L]

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Just as New York Times public editor Arthur S. Brisbane is concerned whether his newspaper is printing lies or the truth, we here at V.F. looking for reader input on whether and when Vanity Fair should spell “words” correctly in the stories we publish.

One example: the word “maintenance” seems like it should only have one “a” in it. It should be “maintenence,” right? But it’s not. So is it our job as reporters and editors to spell it correctly?

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We are all responsible for the decisions our country makes. We have a Congress. We have an independent judiciary. We have checks and balances. We are a nation of laws. We have free speech. We have a free press. Have they all failed us?

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[FlowingData - Nathan Yau]

Tim Berners-Lee, credited with inventing the Web, says analyzing data is the future of journalism:...

The Guardian post focuses on current journalists learning new skills, but what we're also going to see is a new type of pers

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[Alas, a blog - Jen Sorensen]

I actually linked to this video nearly five years ago, but it's worth a replay now. The clip shows Logan being interviewed a highly condescending Howard Kurtz, who was needling her about why the reporting from Iraq was so "n

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