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| Compelling sotry of a person's life |
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| General Assignment Reporter |
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| Cover a wide range of stories |
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| An event to make an announcement and make media take notice. Generally a prepared statement is delivered followed by a question and answer session. |
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| Three or four speakers discuss various aspects or perspectives on a topic. When this takes place in a public setting, it can be considered news. |
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| When government officials conduct official business involving their constituents. |
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| An event where speakers deliver an address to an audience |
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| In every newspaper and designed to primarily present essential information about a person's life and death |
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| Verification of information, getting the facts straight |
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| Covering all sides of an issue |
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| Attempt to make sure all the bases are covered by listening to different viewpoints and incorporating them into the journalistic piece |
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| Requires that journalists stick to observable facts |
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| Looking into every aspect of a story, giving |
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| The action of being as open as possible about what bias they bring to the job, how full and fair account: Materials must be presented in context and provide all accounts of what happened. |
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| Intent to harm without checking truth or falsity |
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| Failure to reveal to a source that you are reporting on a story |
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| Publication or broadcast of false material that lowers someone's standing in the eyes of others |
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| Making up quotes or other information to make up a story. |
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| Fair Comment and criticism |
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| based ont he ntoion that the news media should be able to publish or broadcast criticism of people and good companies that offer their goods and services for public consumption |
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| Publishing information about a person that is fake or places a person in a false light, is highly offensive |
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| Materials must be presented in context and provide all accounts of what happened. |
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| Journalist are prohibited from installing hidden cameras and from using audio recorders and cameras in private settings without permission, form entering private places without permission and for harassing private citizens |
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| Written or broadcasted untruths about a person that will harm the person’s reputation. |
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| Private citizens who take active roles in public controversies or events. |
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| Those individuals without a line between public and private life |
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| Citizens who must only prove simple negligence in a libel suit |
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| Using the work of others without attribution |
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| Using documentary evidence, eye witness account to support a story |
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| Public official/public figure rule |
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| applies to public employees or those in the public eye |
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| Public disclosure to private facts |
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| Printing information that violates the right to privacy of the subject. |
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| Protection for journalists if material is reported from trials, hearings and inquiries in progress |
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| weak sources, indaequate investigation, unbelievable charges or serious doubts about truth of story |
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| offers reporters the right not to be compelled to testify or disclose sources or information in court |
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| FActs in story are wrong, reporter didn't get defamed person's side of story, didn't use best sources available or failed to resolve discrepancies between reporters memory and source's memory |
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| Population characteristics divided into categories. |
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| The inclusion of people of different races or cultures in a group or organization. |
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| helps organize and make sense of what otherwise would be a collection of unrelated observations and facts |
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| A diverse list of sources that can be consulted for a wide range of stories. |
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| generalizations about a group of people whereby we attribute a defined set of characteristics to this group |
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1. Provable Truth. Just proving that someone else made a charge is not enough; a journalist has to prove the truth of that charge.
2. Qualified Privilege is protection for journalists if material is reported from trials, hearings, and inquires in progress.
3. Fair Comment and Criticism is based on the notion that the news media should be able to publish or broadcast criticism of people and companies that offer their goods or services for public consumption. The two most important aspects are that the comments must be fair and they must be criticism
4. Public Official/Public Figure Rule: The news media can publish almost any accusations about public officials provided they do it without actual malice |
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| Typical categories of Defamation |
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| Accusing a person of a crime, being conmpetent or dishonest or charging person with belonging to a disreputable group, having a repugnant disease or illness, with religious, racial or ethnic intolerance or with financial insolvensy |
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| The Shield Law would offer reporters the right not to be compelled to testify or disclose sources and information in court |
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| Eight demographic characteristics |
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| Sex, age, disability, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, economic class, religion |
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