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What does it mean?
News organizations engage in deep ethical deliberation before publishing stories.
In plain terms
Newsrooms think hard about what is right to report.
What can you take from it?
Journalism involves serious moral decision-making.

Where it applies

  • editorial meetings
  • news production
  • broadcast standards

Putting it to work

  • discuss editorial ethics
  • review story impact

Questions to consider

  • How do you judge news integrity?
  • What makes a story right to tell?

Another view

The quote assumes all organizations prioritize this introspection equally.

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