In The Conversation: How sports broadcasters responded to the Damar Hamlin injury

Injuries are an unfortunate part of any sport – none more so than in the NFL, where players can be felled in front of a TV audience in the tens of millions. Typically, when a player suffers an injury, the media cuts to commercial and returns with replays of the injury – sometimes running it over…

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Revealing details of a death can benefit the living

Dwayne Haskins was killed stepping in front of a dump truck on a darkened Florida highway. It was a shocking story, heartbreaking for his family, those who loved him for his football prowess, those of us who knew him during his tenure at Ohio State as a student and quarterback. Two young women made the…

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The Collegiate Journalism Code of Ethics

This column first appeared in the newsletter for the Media Ethics Division of AEJMC. There has never been a better time to be a collegiate journalist—or a more challenging one. Covering campus creates trials that transcend stereotypical stories about housing, food or Greek life. Now the news is of global pandemics and racial inequality, rising…

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The Bedrock of Journalism

This column first appeared in the AEJMC Media Ethics Division Winter 2021 Newsletter I was in class when the text came: “Can we talk ASAP about an ethical issue”? It was one of our Lantern Student Media editors, but he was reaching out about a quandary he faced in his internship with an NPR affiliate….

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The New Normal for Student Journalists

Published first in the AEJMC Media Ethics Division newsletter Our student-journalists at Ohio State started the 2019 Ohio State fall semester covering a campus-area shooting, and we thought that was a crazy way to kick off the year. If only we knew what was coming. This year we were barely out of the 2019-2020 school…

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Lantern Navigates First Amendment Fight

Published first in the AEJMC Media Ethics Division newsletter The Lantern thought it was covering a straightforward campus protest over racial injustice. Within hours Ohio State’s student media was in the middle of a First Amendment fight. It started with a public safety notice. The Ohio State reported two sets of students near campus had…

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Plagiarism: It’s worth talking about

This article first appeared in the AEJMC Media Ethics Division ETHICAL NEWS: SPRING 2019 • VOLUME 22, NO. 3. “Three major publications have acknowledged plagiarism by Fareed Zakaria. Does CNN have no shame?” This column in the Nov. 18, 2014 issue of The Week focuses on Fareed Zakaria, who was in the middle of a scandal that…

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Power of the written word

The video featured a potentially intoxicated sophomore sorority girl, sitting in a fast-food restaurant, lamenting the loss of a boyfriend. Filmed by an unidentified companion, she states in her 10-second video, “F*** yourself you are hooking up with a black girl,” she says. “That’s weird. That’s weird as f***. F*** you.” The video ended up…

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Kraft Comm Classes featured in New York Times

Check out the article, “The iGen Shift: Colleges Are Changing to Reach the Next Generation,” and see how Nicole and other innovative faculty are making learning accessible and engaging for today’s learners.

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