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Foreword
Updated Preface

1. An Introduction to Ethical Decision-Making
Essay: Cases and moral systems, Deni Elliott
Case 1-A: How to read a case?study, Philip Patterson

Part I: Foundations
2. Information Ethics: A Profession Seeks the?Truth
*Case 2-A: Rules of engagement: Mary Louise Kelly and the Mike Pompeo interview, Lee Wilkins
*Case 2-B: Don’t Tweet ill of the dead, Chad Painter
*Case 2-C: Dr. Doolittle not: Debunking fake animal stories, Lee Wilkins
Case 2-D: Anonymous or confidential: Unnamed sources in the news, Lee Wilkins
Case 2-E: Death as content: Social responsibility and the documentary filmmaker, Tanner Hawkins
Case 2-F: When is objective reporting irresponsible reporting?, Theodore L. Glasser

3.Privacy: Looking for Solitude in the Global Village
*Case 3-A: Harry and Meghan: Context and Control, Lee Wilkins
*Case 3-B: Guilty by Google: Unpublishing and crime reporting in the digital age, Deborah L. Dwyer
Case 5-C: Drones and the?news, Kathleen Bartzen Culver
Case 5-D: Doxxer, doxxer, give me the news?, Mark Anthony Poepsel
Case 5-E: Looking for Richard Simmons, Lee Wilkins
Case 5-F: Children and framing: The use of children’s images in an anti-same-sex marriage?ad, Yang?Liu

4.Loyalty: Choosing Between Competing Allegiances
*Case 4-A: Cuomo interviews Cuomo, Chad Painter
Case 4-B: To watch or to report: What journalists were thinking in the midst of disaster, Lee Wilkins
Case 4-C: Public/on-air journalist vs. private/online life: Can it?work?, Madison Hagood
Case 4-D: When you are the story: Sexual harassment in the newsroom, Lee Wilkins
Case 4-E: Where everybody knows your name: Reporting and
relationships in a small?market, Ginny Whitehouse
Case 4-F: Quit, blow the whistle, or go with the?flow?, Robert D. Wakefield

5.Mass Media in a Democratic Society: Keeping a Promise
*Case 5-A: Murder the media: Ethics on January 6, 2021, Lee Wilkins
*Case 5-B: A second draft of history: The New York Times’s 1619 Project, Lee Wilkins
*Case 5-C: When journalists question algorithms and automated systems, Xerxes Minocher and Kathleen Bartzen Culver
*Case 5-D: Watchdog or horndog: Daily Mail, revenge porn, and Katie Hill, Chad Painter
*Case 5-E: Mayor Jim West’s computer, Ginny Whitehouse
Case 5-F: For God and Country: The media and national security, Jeremy Littau and Mark Slagle

6.Informing a Just Society
*Case 6-A: The Kansas City Star in black and white: A newspaper apologizes for 140 years of coverage, Lee Wilkins
*Case 6-B: Journalism and activism: When identity becomes political, Rebecca Smith
*Case 6-C: Where’s the line? Covering racial protest on a college campus, Nicole Kraft
Case 6-D: Spotlight: It takes a village to abuse a child, Lee Wilkins
Case 6-E: Cincinnati Enquirer’s heroin?beat, Chad Painter
Case 6-F: GoldieBlox: Building a future on?theft, Scott Burgess

Part II: Applications
7.Strategic Communication: Does Client Advocate Mean Consumer Adversary?
*Case 7-A: Fyre Festival becomes Fyre Fraud, Emily Horvath and Chad Painter
*Case 7-B: Through the glass darkly: Peloton, body shaming, and America’s odd relationship with exercise, Lee Wilkins
Case 7-C: Weedvertising, Lee Wilkins
Case 7-D: Keeping Up with the Kardashians’ prescription drug choices, Tara Walker
Case 7-E: Between a (Kid) Rock and a hard?place, Molly?Shor
Case 7-F: Was that an Apple computer I saw? Product placement in the United States and?abroad, Philip Patterson

8.Picture This: Technology, visual information, and evolving standards
*Case 8-A: New York Times ends political cartoons, Chad Painter
*Case 8-B: Did you meme that: The unhoppy life of Pepe the Frog, Lee Wilkins
Case 8-C: Remember my fame: Digital necromancy and the immortal celebrity, Samantha?Most
Case 8-D: Problem photos and public?outcry, Jon Roosenraad
Case 8-E: Above the fold: Balancing newsworthy photos with community standards, Jim Godbold and Janelle Hartman
Case 8-F: Horror in?Soweto, Sue O’Brien

9.Media Economics: The Deadline Meets the Bottom?Line
*Case 9-A: Twitter’s Trump problem, Chad Painter
*Case 9-B: When investigative reporting is bad for business, Chad Painter
*Case 9-C: And the Oscar rejects…Frida Mom, Chad Painter
Case 9-D: Who controls the local news? Sinclair Broadcasting Group and “must-runs”, Keena?Neal
Case 9-E: Contested interests, contested terrain: The New York Times Code of?Ethics, Lee Wilkins and Bonnie Brennen
Case 9-F: Automated journalism: The rise of robot reporters, Chad Painter

10.The Ethical Dimensions of Art and Entertainment
*Case 10-A: Documenting culture clash in American Factory,
Emily Callam and Chad Painter
*Case 10-B: The Daily Show’s one-client legal team, Chad Painter
*Case 10-C: #OscarsSoWhite: Representation in the creative process, Lee Wilkins
Case 10-D: Get Out: When the horror is?race, Michael Fuhlhage and Lee Wilkins
Case 10-E: To die for: Making terrorists of gamers in Modern Warfare?2, Philip Patterson
Case 10-F: The Onion: Finding humor in mass shootings, Chad Painter

11.Becoming a Moral Adult

Bibliography
Index