SPJ Ethics Week: April 27- This year’s Ethics Week focuses on potentially improving the SPJ Code of Ethics, America’s most influential media ethics code. SPJ wants feedback from the public, journalists and those close to journalism to revise the Code for just the sixth time in its 100-year history.
SPJ’s Professional Standards and Ethics Committee’s purpose is to encourage the use of the Society’s Code of Ethics, which promotes the highest professional standards for journalists of all disciplines. Public concerns are often answered by this committee. It also acts as a spotter for reporting trends in the nation, accumulating case studies of jobs well done under trying circumstances.
The SPJ Code of Ethics is voluntarily embraced by thousands of journalists, regardless of place or platform, and is widely used in newsrooms and classrooms as a guide for ethical behavior. The code is intended not as a set of
Nieman Journalism Lab: Society for Professional Journalists’ “sin” contest for college papers, encouraging them to violate SPJ’s code of ethics and win $500, is…going over quite badly this year
Papers are encouraged to “make stuff up entirely. The wilder, the better” and “include the SPJ Code of Ethics with a letter from the editor explaining that you are showing what the world would look ...
Society for Professional Journalists’ “sin” contest for college papers, encouraging them to violate SPJ’s code of ethics and win $500, is…going over quite badly this year
The Society of Professional Journalists is the nation’s most broad-based journalism organization, dedicated to encouraging the free practice of journalism and upholding high ethical standards. Founded in 1909 as Sigma Delta Chi, SPJ champions journalists by recognizing outstanding achievement, protecting press freedom, promoting ethics, and preparing new generations of professionals.