The Telemundo anchor who had an affair with the Mayor of Los Angeles would have been guilty of adultery (not a crime in California) and of this (an ethical violation).
CONFLICT OF INTEREST
100
Unless they're specific to the news organization where you work, ethics codes can't be rigidly enforced because they are this.
VOLUNTARY
100
A good way to help the environment OR a type of plagiarism that involves borrowing from your own previous work without citing it.
RECYCLING
100
Online news sources often have to deal with this type of problematic individual in their comments section.
TROLL
100
The issue that gets reduced to "women reporters in the locker room" is actually just about this.
EQUAL ACCESS (or "Equal protection under the law").
200
One of the four types of invasion of privacy, it involves reporting true but potentially humiliating facts about someone that aren't newsworthy.
EMBARRASSMENT
200
This can be deceptive because it looks like news, but it's really just an attempt to sell you something.
ADVERTORIAL
200
Taking care of your server or bartender OR something that often leads to big stories being broken.
TIPS
200
One of the tenets of minimizing harm is balancing the public's right to be informed with a criminal suspects right to a fair what?
TRIAL
200
Far too often, coverage of female athletes focuses on this rather than their actual accomplishments in their sport.
LOOKS (Or "Physical attributes" or something similar.)
300
When the Los Angeles Times split advertising revenue with the subject of a special section in their weekend magazine, they were in violation of this ethical pillar.
ACT INDEPENDENTLY
300
You want your transportation and your sources to be this so you don't get caught in a bad place.
RELIABLE
300
A soldier of the lowest military rank OR the type of person whose personal life shouldn't be intruded upon without an overriding public need.
PRIVATE
300
Not just facts, but facts put into context for the greater understanding of the audience.
TRUTH
300
This is a major reason why the number of females playing sports has increased dramatically in the last 40 years.
TITLE IX
400
The Raleigh News and Observer was guilty of a rush to judgment in the Duke Lacrosse case, but in framing the story as "white vs. black," "privileged vs. working-class" and "town and gown," they were also guilty of this violation of "Seek Truth and Report It."
STEREOTYPING
400
Finish this famous quote about a conflict of interest: "I don't care if you f*** an elephant, just as long..."
"...AS YOU DON'T COVER THE CIRCUS."
400
What you (hopefully) are doing to your clothes regularly OR when "respectable" media report on what the tabloids are covering as a way of distancing themselves from actually covering the story.
LAUNDERING ("Tabloid Laundering")
400
We care that journalists are honest and fair because it is a matter of what?
TRUST
400
These are two reasons why reporters need locker room access at all.
DEADLINES and EMOTION (or "better quotes")
500
Plagiarism and fabrication are two types of deceptions that should never be done because they destroy this.
Where the DJ puts the needle OR the best type of source.
ON THE RECORD
500
"It's just part of the job," "But everybody else is doing it!" and "But I can still be objective" are rationalizations you shouldn't make when it comes to ethical decisions. We call these what?
TRAPS
500
Name two local television newsroom positions which are predominantly filled by women.