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MEDIA ETHICS

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Websites

• Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance This site contains the findings of the committee reviewing the MEAA/AJA 'Code of Ethics' in the "Hot Topics" section.
• Australian Legal Information Institute (ALII) 
  Type in 'Media Ethics' in the Search box. The problem with this site is that it contains so many references it is a chore having to sort the relevant material from the rest.
• Australian Press Council
  (If you encounter trouble reaching the Press Council site, try the URL for the ALII immediately above.) This site contains hundreds of the Press Council's 'adjudications', which can be used as examples of ethical decision-making in practice.
• Australian Association of Professional and Applied Ethics
• Ethics in Journalism: Society of Professional Journalists
• UBC Centre for Applied Ethics
• Ethic Net: Databank for European Codes of Journalism Ethics
• Poynter Online. Media Ethics Bibliography
• The Institute for the Study of Applied and Professional Ethics
• Journalism Ethics, San Francisco State
• Asian Media Ethics
  This site covers the codes and regulations current in Hong Kong, India, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, and Sri Lanka.
• Committee to Protect Journalists
• Essay on the Introduction to Objectivism
• Index on Censorship
• European Institute for the Media
• Northern California SPJ Ethics
• Association for Practical and Professional Ethics, Indiana
• Centre for the Study of Ethics in the Professions, Illinois IT
• Journalism Ethics, Hawaii
• Codes of Ethics, School of Journalism and Communication, University of Oregon
• SET Lecture References on the Web
• SET Home Page
• Minnesota News Council's Media Ethics documents
• Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR)
• Media Monitor - Scottish
• Media Monitor - VS
• Institute of Practical Philosophy
• USQ Ethics Home Page
• Accuracy in Media
• Asian American Journalists Association
• Assciated Press Managing Editors
• The Australian Broadcasting Authority
• Columbia Journalism Review
• Ethical issues in photojournalism, Michigan Press Photographers Association
• The Freedom Forum
• Institute for Applied and Professional Ethics, Ohio University
• Investigative Reporters and Editors
• Journal of Mass Media Ethics
• Media Ethics Online
• Media Law in Singapore - Ethics
• Media Watch, ABC
• National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting
• Press Complaints Commission, UK
• Radio-Television News Directors Association Codes of Ethics and Standard

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