Journalism Ethics

What is the term for the principles and guidelines that govern journalistic conduct, including accuracy, fairness, and objectivity?

• Relevant

• Extraneous

• Ethics

• Bias

What is the term for a personal or organizational inclination or prejudice that can influence how news is reported?

• Relevant

• Extraneous

• Ethics

• Bias

Libel is?

• doing the right thing

• slander

• spoken defamation

• printed false defemation

Answer explanation

Libel is printed defamation, it can be printed in magazines, newspapers, or online in any news source

Being a neutral observer of events and issues means you are

• slanderous

• libelous

• objective

• a journalist

Answer explanation

Being objective means you do not pick a side or insert your own opinion. You remain neutral and report the facts of the story.

passing someone else's work off as your own is.....

• plagiarism

• slander

• libel

• defamation

Answer explanation

Using someone else's work and claiming it as your own is plagiarism. You must give credit where it is due. If not, you could be in a lot of legal trouble.

Defamation means

• telling the truth

• causing intentional damage to someone's reputation by something such as slander or libel

• publishing false facts

• plagiarizing

The ability to be belived and trusted is?

• sensationalism

• credibility

• ethics

• defamation

Answer explanation

If a source is considered credible, that means they are reliable and can be trusted.

Ethics are a system of what?

• moral principals

• rules for journalists to follow

• questioning

• journalistic writing

Answer explanation

Remember that ethics rely on having correct morals, knowing right from wrong.

Libel is

• legal

• spoken defamation

• written defamation

• ethical

Professional journalism associations, individual news organizations, and journalists themselves often have their own "code of ethics"

• True

• False