As some of you know, I attended an important ethics seminar with many of my Channel 3 colleagues today at Kent State University. The all day event was a lively discussion of ethics and how to maintain them as we move to include citizen journlists and those who wish to express their voices in the new world of digital media using our platforms like on blogs, forums and Youtube, for example.
Before I share my views on today's forum, I like to first ask you to comment on how YOU feel we should move forward with maintaining quality while we [the media] are economically forced to look at different ways to remain relevant.
Can a standard of ethics be maintained while still allowing the public to be part of the process? Or is the only way to continue a "closed system" - where we [the media] are the only gatekeepers and filters to the public that they can trust.
Please post your comments below. I will moderate the comments, but not edit them. This is only to keep the comments on topic.
3 comments:
hi frank. i follow you on twitter, making my way from your tweet(i hate calling it that) to your kyc blog.
i'm curious to know the root of your question.
was there something about the seminar today that left you and your colleagues walking away questioning the validity or political correctness of public blogs or citizen journalists?
Hi Anonymous,
I'm Dan, I work with Frank and attended the seminar.
I heard a lot of traditional newspaper employees question whether it was even possible for unorganized people to contribute "meaningfully" to the work of journalists.
There was a lot of pushback from these mainly newspaper employees.
From my perch at wkyc, I see us tentatively taking positive steps to listen to people we used to call our audience.
I hope we can continue to use blogs and other web tools to push our coverage and coversations.
Media and Ethics, isn't that an oxymoron?
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