Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University's objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide.

Click to enlarge

Print Price: $103.50

Format:
Paperback
336 pp.
20 illustrations, 190 mm x 245 mm

ISBN-13:
9780195522259

Publication date:
November 2013

Imprint: OUP Australia and New Zealand

Journalism Ethics and Law

Stories of Media Practice

Janine Little

Journalism Ethics and Law focuses on some of Australia's most notorious current events to bring to life the on-going conversation about journalism ethics and how the law works with today's media. Emphasising practical work-based approaches to developing best practice multimedia journalism; this book presents a combined ethics and law experience for journalism students. It includes interactive activities and tips developing further knowledge of journalism as a distinct media practice, as well as timely case studies aimed at highlighting the most significant questions for the practice of law and ethics today.

Readership : Suitable for undergraduate students of journalism law and ethics.

1. Introduction - Ethical Beginnings, Legal Endings
2. An Ethical Ideal worth Aiming For: Journalism and Best Practice
3. Pragmatic and Bold: The Journalist and the Media
4. Ethical Stories: Codes, Disasters, and DJs
5. Freedom as Idea and Practice: Ethics, 'Hacktivism' and Human Rights
6. Trial by Media I: Women in the Private-Public Divide
7. Trial by Media II: Contempt of Court and the Ethics-Law Balance in Journalism
8. Hurt Reputations: Australian Rulings from Shower Scenes to War Crimes
9. Defamation Defences
10. Animal Rights and Public Interest: How Journalists Advocating for Animals Helped Shape Australian Law
11. When Trolls Ruled the Twitterverse: Journalism and Social Media
12. The Competition and Consumer Act for Journalists
13. Copyright for Journalists
14. Conclusion - Continuing Journalism

There are no Instructor/Student Resources available at this time.

Dr Janine Little is a senior lecturer in journalism and chairs the third year media law and ethics unit at Deakin University, Victoria.

Making Sense in the Social Sciences - Margot Northey, Lorne Tepperman and Patrizia Albanese
News as it Happens - Stephen Lamble
Journalism Research and Investigation in a Digital World - Stephen Tanner and Nick Richardson
Media and Journalism - Jason Bainbridge, Nicola Goc and Liz Tynan
Australian Broadcast Journalism - Gail Phillips and Mia Lindgren

Special Features

Written in a lively and engaging style while maintaining a solid foundation of legal information and reasoning catered to journalists.
Provides students the exemplary evidence from current affairs and the contemporary media environment first, before encouraging them to develop their own individual self-empowerment as both journalists and journalism thinkers.
Includes strong recourse to the use and impact of social networking sites and user-generated content on finding the law, as well as on finding the most practicable ethical decision, in the process of journalistic work.
Written to assist student journalists with experiencing ethical responsibility on their own by providing the guidance and material to think about journalism studies as more than knowing a set of rules and how they are followed or broken.