Journalists face ethical issues on a daily basis. What is the right thing to do? What is the right thing to say? These are ethical issues that journalists face when going after the stories they want.
Some examples of problems journalists face in regards to ethics are the duty to their self, duty to their audience, duty to their employer, duty to their profession, and duty to their society. The journalist has to make all of these people happy and if they do not then a problem may arise.
Journalists try to limit the amount of harm done to a person as much as possible. This results in holding back information from articles or reports. For example, names of minors, crime victim names, or information not essentially related to particular news reports release of which might harm someone’s reputation.
Journalists face ethical dilemmas often and the best way to resolve them is to cause the least amount of harm possible to the person or persons and to do what you think is the right thing to do. “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.”
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