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21Made in Japan: Connecting the Dots through Contemporary Communitarianism’s Intellectual HistoryJournal of Media Ethics 33 (4): 170-180. 2018.ABSTRACTTwenty-five years ago, Christians, Ferré, and Fackler’s Good News: Social Ethics and the Press proposed the then-radical notion of communitarianism as an alternative moral philosophy for media ethics. This article evaluates communitarianism as a media ethic, but not only according to the work already done by Christians and colleagues. Instead, this article extends the communitarian ideal by connecting it, in a new way, to notions espoused a half century earlier by Tetsuro Watsuji, a Japa…Read more
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A Community in Conversation With ItselfIn Jay Black (ed.), Mixed News: The Public/Civic/Communitarian Journalism Debate, Erlbaum. pp. 118. 1997.
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152The Epistemology of Retweeting and The Ethics of TrustJournal of Mass Media Ethics 27 (1): 68-70. 2012.Journal of Mass Media Ethics, Volume 27, Issue 1, Page 68-70, January-March
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44The Ethics Examiner and Media Councils: Improving Ombudsmanship and News Councils for True Citizen JournalismJournal of Mass Media Ethics 26 (1): 38-55. 2011.The debate over news ombudsmen remains at a seemingly irreconcilable impasse, and less relevant as journalism shifts away from print and traditional newsroom structures in the new-media age. There are fewer than 30 ombudsmen at U.S. media outlets today, according to the Organization of News Ombudsmen (Ombudsmen, 2010). We argue that the greatest failure of ombudsmanship is that it does not go far enough in giving voice and visibility to the ombudsman's work, including interacting with community.…Read more
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43When west writes east: In search of an ethic for cross-cultural interviewingJournal of Mass Media Ethics 23 (4). 2008.Cross-cultural interviewing can pose challenges for journalists, given potential differences in language, word choice, volume, body posture, and group dynamics. This article explores some of the complexities of cross-cultural interviews with the dual aim of heightening awareness of ethical considerations for journalists who conduct them and of discussing ethical principles that may help in guiding their work. This article attempts to move the discussion of cross-cultural interviews beyond tradit…Read more
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19Public virtue: A focus for editorializing about political characterJournal of Mass Media Ethics 12 (1). 1997.This article argues that afirm and consistent editorial focus on a poilitician's public virtue would serve well as the essence of journalistic communication about piitical character. Public virtue is defined as the ethical character traits attributed to a politician by an editorialist, based on direct obsemation, of the politician's words and deeds, broadly construed. After presenting the theoretical foundation of this definition, via qualitative case-study methodology, this essay analyzes the e…Read more