May 10, 2008 •
Ethics and Quality, Public Relations •
by Marlis Prinzing
St. Galler Tagblatt, 12.04.2008 We all prefer to see what we would like to see. Tibet is in a truly pitiful position. China is evil and giving Tibet a hard time. How true! At least that’s what the words and pictures are telling us....
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March 7, 2008 •
Ethics and Quality •
by Marlis Prinzing
St. Galler Tagblatt, 15.02.2008 The Difficult Relationship between the Media and the Car Industry Everyday commodity, luxury good, environmental hazard – cars represent different things to different people. The same goes for those who...
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February 7, 2008 •
Ethics and Quality, Newsroom Management •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
Neue Zürcher Zeitung, February 1, 2008 Researchers Analyze the Iraq Campaign of the US Government There is by now only little dispute that George W. Bush and his administration have lied to the public when, during the run-up of the Second...
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December 7, 2007 •
Ethics and Quality •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
Schweizer Journalist Nr. 10 + 11, 2007, 74 A student group at Columbia University has targeted the journalistic blunders that have hit the headlines. The students tried to find out whatever happened to the field’s “black sheep”,...
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November 22, 2007 •
Ethics and Quality •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
Schweizer Journalist Nr. 10 + 11, 2007, 74 So far, American media seemed the shining example of correction policies: Every newspaper which wants to be taken seriously has a “Corrections Corner” – a column where the newsroom rectifies...
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October 15, 2007 •
Ethics and Quality •
by Cristina Elia Stephan Russ-Mohl
Neue Zürcher Zeitung, October 5, 2007 The institution of the news ombudsman, that mediates between readers and newsrooms, has been around for more or less 40 years. In the U.S. there has been more independence treating delicate cases. The...
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April 5, 2007 •
Ethics and Quality •
by Cristina Elia
Journalist Nr.4, April, 2007 They perform a variety of functions and are not always met with enthusiasm. News ombudsmen act as mediators between readers and journalists, trying to make each group understand the other and pursuing the...
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March 23, 2007 •
Ethics and Quality •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
Neue Zürcher Zeitung, March 23, 2007 Is the quality of US journalism deteriorating? Have journalists betrayed their principles? Recent data suggest that the critics, some of them famous and very outspoken, might be barking up the wrong...
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March 5, 2007 •
Ethics and Quality •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
EJO RESEARCH How effective are the moral codes of media companies? Double moral standards are a constitutive element of modern societies as they are of their media systems. The values usually extolled by morally upright individuals on...
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