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Jill Hopke @jillhopke
December 2, 2014
Maintaining Journalism Principles and Ethics in a Digital Age
A major weather event is happening across the country in NYC. A friend who lives there sends you a photo text. Would you? • Share on Facebook • Share on Instagram • Text back for more info • Run through Google
Image Search • Turn on cable news • Look for similar images
on TwiMer • Something else?
What would you do?
Content Curator
CiNzen Journalism/
User-‐Generated Content
Concepts for Today
VerificaNon
Changing News DistribuNon
News via Social Media
News is becoming social
Source: Pew Research Journalism Project. (2013). The Facebook News Experience.
Spreadability
• Flow of ideas • Dispersed material • Open-‐ended parTcipaTon • Diversified experiences • Good ideas circulate • CollaboraTon across roles (e.g. journalist, public)
“If it doesn’t spread, it’s dead.”
Source: Jenkins, H. et al. (2013). Spreadable Media: Crea/ng Value and Meaning in a Networked Culture.
JournalisTc Norms on Social Media?
• ObligaTon to truth • Loyalty to the public • VerificaTon • Independence • Forum for public discourse • InteresTng and relevant • Comprehensive • Exercise of personal
conscience Adapted from: Kovach, B. & RosensTel, T. (2007). The elements of journalism: What newspeople should know and what the public should expect. New York: Three Rivers Press.
Maintaining Ethics with Changing News Roles
Who is a “journalist”?
“Miracle on the Hudson” January 15, 2009
The Rise of User-‐Generated Content
#AlexFromTarget October -‐ November 2014
ü Story narraTve and context ü Stop and verify through mulTple sources
ü If in doubt, don’t include ü Communicate with your sources (direct message, email, phone)
ü Trust is sTll key ü Be transparent
New News Roles and the “Content Curator”
Changing Journalist – Audience RelaTonships
Nicholas Kristof Facebook November 12, 2014
Changing Journalist – Audience RelaTonships
Nicholas Kristof Facebook November 13, 2014
Verifying InformaNon in a (Social) Digital Age
The Capacity to Spread (False) Info Fast
Fake Hurricane Sandy Picture (From 2009 “Flooded McDonald’s”)
VerificaTon of User-‐Generated Content
#FakeSandy The Guardian,
October 29, 2012
Verify Before You Share
“How A Fake Storm Photo Goes Viral” BuzzFeed
October 29, 2012
One step ahead of Photoshopping
Highway 12 Nebraska Supercell Mike Hollingshead
May 28, 2004
• Remember the “Who, what, when, where, why and how”
• Is the content original? • Check source locaTon, date and Tmestamp
• Be skepTcal; use third-‐person
• Think first -‐ If in doubt, don’t post/retweet • Check mulTple sources/types of sources
• Photos: Landmarks? Weather condiTons? Get permission, idenTfy people, provide context, include Tme/place
reference; @menTon source
VerificaTon Best PracTces
• ObligaTon to truth • Loyalty to the public • VerificaTon • Independence • Forum for public discourse • InteresTng and relevant • Comprehensive • Exercise of personal
conscience Adapted from: Kovach, B. & RosensTel, T. (2007). The elements of journalism: What newspeople should know and what the public should expect. New York: Three Rivers Press.
Returning to JournalisTc Norms
