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Law and Ethics for Today's Journalist: A Concise Guide Hardback - 2013

by Joe Mathewson

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Law and Ethics for Today's Journalist offers aspiring and working journalists the practical understanding of law and ethics they must have to succeed at their craft. Instead of covering every nuance of media law for aspiring communication professionals, Mathewson focuses on what's relevant for journalists. Even though media law and media ethics are closely linked together in daily journalistic practice, they are usually covered in separate volumes. Mathewson brings them together in a clear and colorful way that practicing journalists will find more useful. Everything a journalist needs to know about legal protections, limitations, and risks inherent in workaday reporting is illustrated with highlights from major court opinions.

Mathewson advises journalists who must often make ethical decisions on the spot with no time for elaborate, multi-faceted analysis. The book assigns to journalists the hard decisions on ethical questions such as whether to go undercover or otherwise misrepresent themselves in order to get a big story. The ethics chapter precedes the law chapters because ethical standards should underlie a journalist's work at all times. In situations where ethics and law are not obviously parallel, the journalist may sometimes be called to make a defensible personal judgment.

Law and Ethics for Today's Journalist is user-friendly, written in clear, direct, understandable language on issues that really matter to a working journalist. Supplementary reading of actual court cases is recommended; URLs for many cases are conveniently provided in the end-of-chapter references. The book includes a fine (but purposely not exhaustive) bibliography listing important and useful legal cases, including instructive appellate and trial court opinions, state as well as federal.

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  • Title Law and Ethics for Today's Journalist: A Concise Guide
  • Author Joe Mathewson
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition [ Edition: 1 ]
  • Pages 240
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Routledge
  • Publication date 2013-10-30
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780765640758 / 0765640759
  • Weight 0.98 lbs (0.44 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.31 x 6.26 x 0.72 in (23.65 x 15.90 x 1.83 cm)
  • Category Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy
  • Library of Congress subjects Press law - United States, Journalists - United States - Handbooks,
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2013009458
  • Dewey Decimal Code 343.730

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About the author

Joe Mathewson teaches courses in the ethics and law of journalism in the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. As a former Supreme Court correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, he is author of The Supreme Court and the Press: The Indispensable Conflict (2011, Northwestern University Press). He's a contributor to chicagohistoryjournal.com, having written pieces on Chicago-based Supreme Court cases involving prominent lawyers. In Chicago, Mathewson covered business for The Wall Street Journal, was a WBBM-TV reporter, and served as press secretary to Illinois Gov. Richard B. Ogilvie. He authored a book on Chicago politics, Up Against Daley (1974), as well as op-eds and Sunday magazine articles for the Chicago Tribune and Sun-Times. He has been a Cook County commissioner, a director of several community banks, an officer of a minority-owned broker-dealer, and a securities arbitrator for the National Association of Securities Dealers. Mathewson has degrees from Dartmouth and the University of Chicago Law School, and did graduate work in European politics and economies at the Bologna (Italy) Center of John Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies. He has served ten years as a trustee of Dartmouth College.

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