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Black Academic Olympics to be held Sept. 16 in Baltimore, MD Join schools systems across the United States in competing in the 1st Annual Black Academic Olympics to be held on Saturday, September 16, 2006 in Baltimore, MD as part of the 2nd Annual Black Press All Star Awards presented by the Historical Black Press Foundation. Help us improve the number of African American men attend and graduate from college. Support this great event! |
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Save the Date: 2nd Annual Black Press All Star Awards The Historical Black Press Foundation will present the awards at the 2nd Annual Black Press All Star Awards Luncheon and Onsite Media Clinic on September 15-17, 2006 in Baltimore, MD's plush Inner Harbor. The award ceremony is part of a three-day event designed to honor journalistic excellence and to address need for newsroom diversity. This year's theme is: SOS: Can we save America's Black Press? Workshop tracks include: Hip Hop Anti-Violence Townhall Meeting; Black Press Roundtable Discussion and From Christ to Kanye: Hip Hop's Effective on Gospel Media. |
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Media Professional Disagree on Media Ethics 
Washington, DC -- July 17, 2006 -- (BlackPressMagazine.com) The pillars: thoroughness, accuracy, fairness and transparency, still hold true in the basics of "traditional journalism" but media professionals agree that ethical principles ultimately depend on the morals of media executives.
Media ethics is a broad spectrum to generalize. There are some media professionals with the absolutist thought that there is a universal standard reporters must abide by which defines what ethics they should have in reporting; as if there is a Ten Commandments of Ethics. But majority of media professionals disagree with opposing factors and says that ethics in the media is individualized towards the publishers and editors of the publication.
Today, critics argue that there is a shortage of creditability in journalism due to the lack of loyalty to the readers and a never-ending battle to please the editors who just "want the story no matter what.
Richard Prince, editor of Journal-isms says that is has always been important for journalists to please their editors and just because there is that race toward the bottom in journalism, doesn't mean ethics are being undermined. "If anything, more attention is being paid to ethics than ever," Prince said.
"Just look at all the journalists who have been disciplined or lost their jobs over the past few years. Some of their transgressions would not have warranted such severe punishment only a few years ago. Some would be shocked by the ethical breaches that were commonplace in past generations," he said.
Dr. Lawrence Kaggwa, publisher of the District Chronicles and a professor of journalism and ethics at Howard University says that during his rein in reporting more than 15 years ago, ethics weren't as developed as they are today. Kaggwa says that if journalists want to stay in a media establishment and grow in it, they will have to abide to the standards of that particular form of media. Kaggwa agrees with Prince in saying, journalists must listen to the editor but he also says that journalists have an obligation to both the readers/ viewers as well.
"The editors have to pass it or readers will never see it. In a way, you're writing for both the writers and the readers but the editors are the gatekeepers and they do keep stuff out of paper," he said.
But Kaggwa insists that journalists need to have very high personal standards that are going to guide them in their day to day work. It won't be because of a universal standards, it will be because of her personal standards if they should or shouldn't do the story.
"Personal standards are going to govern what is considers what is appropriate for this or that personal situation. Then we get into ethics," he said. "Working professionals in the industry will tell you that ethics is an individual choice among the editors and publication rather than of a universal standard we have to go by, because we don't," said Kaggwa.
Natalie Gilmore is an editorial intern for Black Press Magazine's Summer internship program. She is a senior majoring in Journalism at Austin Prey University and is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority. Here are just a few of the articles that the our Black Press Magazine summer interns have completed:
