The document discusses lessons learned from the Boston Marathon bombing coverage and ethics in new media. It raises questions about how traditional media should respond to changes in the media world. Specifically, it examines tensions between speed and accuracy in reporting, using graphic images responsibly, identifying suspects online, moderating anonymous comments, and whether social media should determine standards over traditional media.

1. Ethics in a new media world
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Randy Covington
Director, WAN-IFRA Newsplex
at the University of South Carolina

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St. Peter’s Square
Rome, Italy
A new Pope
is named

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The media world is changing.
How should we in traditional
media respond?

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Lessons from Boston

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Lessons from Boston
Speed vs. accuracy

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Lessons from Boston
Graphic reality vs. taste
Boston Globe

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Lessons from Boston
Graphic reality vs. taste

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Lessons from Boston
Graphic reality vs. taste
Is it okay
to Photoshop?

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Lessons from Boston
Authorities release
photos; the web
goes to work

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Lessons from Boston
Innocent people are identified as suspects

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Lessons from Boston
Reddit apologizes
The reddit staff and the millions of people on reddit around the world
deeply regret that this happened. We have apologized privately to the
family of missing college student Sunil Tripathi, as have various users
and moderators. We want to take this opportunity to apologize public
for the pain they have had to endure.

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Lessons from Boston
“In a world where everyone is a
publisher, no one is an editor. And that
is the danger we face today.”
Scott Pelley
Anchor, CBS TV

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Lessons from Boston
New York Post
criticized

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Lessons from Boston
Shootout seen online

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Lessons from Boston
Search for explanations

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We know what we do best. But
how do we compete in areas
where we do less well.
Example: online comments.

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New Yorker
cartoon

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BitterWaitress.com

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Shouldn’t comments be moderated?
“Besides forming online communities in
which people share ideas, news and
gossip and debate issues of the day,
blogs empower character assassins and
mischief makers.”
USA Today

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Shouldn’t comments be moderated?
rcubedkc wrote:We have a worthless, drunken coward in the White House and a
majority of Senators who are traitors. They will go down in history as the
sellouts who destroyed the United States. God damned each and every one of
them. I hope they all die a slow, horrible and painful death. 6/26/2007 6:14:32 PM

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Should comments be annonymous?

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Shouldn’t comments be moderated?
Huffington Post
moderates

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Questions for journalists
• Shouldn’t we have the same
standards for letters & comments?
• Don’t people deserve to know who
is attacking them?
• Should social media set the rules?
• Is it better to be first or right?
• Aren’t we risking action by someone
else if we don’t take responsibility?