SPJ Code of Ethics
A situation in which a difficult choice has to be made between two courses of action, either of which entails transgressing a moral principle.
What is an ethical dilemma
This News Value takes into consideration how many people are affected and how seriously they are affected
What is Impact
The opening sentence or paragraph of a news article, summarizing the most important aspects of the story.
What is a lede?
Some journalists have even risked jail time rather than identify a source such as a government whistleblower or corporate leak.
What is protecting sources?
Who What When Where Why
What are the 5 W's?
This particular code of ethics requires that Ethical journalism should be accurate and fair. Journalists should be honest and courageous in gathering, reporting and interpreting information.
What is Seek Truth and Report It.
In this News Value, people have the power to make an event that might not be big news, a big deal based off of their popularity.
The lede of your feature article...
What is a nut graf?
Journalists and editors often work together to balance an obligation to accurately report the news while also doing no harm.
They may have to choose between protecting the person's biographical information and delivering a huge story.
What is Privacy vs News Value.
A person(s) of contact that provides information for your story / interview.
What is a source?
Journalists responsibilities lie in balancing a suspect’s right to a fair trial with the public’s right to know. And considering the implications of identifying criminal suspects before they face legal charges.
What is Minimize Harm?
This particular News Value gives information that the public needs to navigate the world like weather reports and health information
What is Usefulness / Stewardship
Also known as a delayed lede, this particular type doesn't have to get all the important points into the first graf. It can take several grafs, usually no more than three or four, to lead the reader into the story, through the use of description, anecdote or by setting a scene.
What is a feature lede.
One of the pillars of journalism ethics is impartiality. News stories should be reported fairly, objectively, and without being a direct participant of the event they are writing about.
What is conflict of interest
when you take another person's words and place them in your own document. These must always be placed inside quotation marks and given appropriate attribution
What is a direct quote?
Avoid conflicts of interest, real or perceived. Disclose unavoidable conflicts.
What is Act Independently.
This News Value emphasizes that the story provides new, updated relevant information..
What is Timeliness
Another word for paragraph in journalism that is usually shortened to just four letters..
What is a graf.
A basic rule you’ll encounter in newsrooms is that certain victims of crimes are not identified by name – particularly when the victim is a child.
Protecting Sources
The idea or fact taken from an outside source and used in a second piece of writing.
What is an indirect quote?
Acknowledge mistakes and correct them promptly and prominently. Explain corrections and clarifications carefully and clearly.
What is Be Accountable and Transparent.
This News Value includes how many and how seriously, but can also be measured by the depth of pain, shock or how “out of character” or “unexpected” something might be.
What is Weight
With this kind of lede, the journalist sets a scene or tells a story without immediately making clear the Who or What of a story, in order to build tension, establish a tone, or pique audience interest.
What is a blind lede
Publications struggle to balance the point that running popular stories undermine a news organization’s commitment to meaningful reporting?
What is audience as a customer?
It's the lens through which the writer filters the information he or she has gathered and focuses it to make it meaningful to viewers or readers.
What is Story Angle