Comments on: Integrity http://journalism.nyu.edu/ethics/handbook/integrity/ Ethics, Law & Good Practice Mon, 14 Jul 2008 09:18:44 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Erik Sherman http://journalism.nyu.edu/ethics/handbook/integrity/comment-page-1/#comment-47 Erik Sherman Sun, 04 Nov 2007 08:20:14 +0000 http://journalism.nyu.edu/ethics/handbook/1-integrity/#comment-47 As you're talking about integrity, you might note that while this is the standard at the school, it is often common in the industry - on the part of publishers and freelance writers who retain their rights - to resell material and to rework existing writing into new forms, so long as it's done by someone having the appropriate rights and with the knowledge of those purchasing the work. The same would go with reusing research, also a common, and accepted, practice. It's fine to insist on more stringent standards for course work, but you don't want to leave students ready to assume that something is an ethical violation when it may not be. As you’re talking about integrity, you might note that while this is the standard at the school, it is often common in the industry – on the part of publishers and freelance writers who retain their rights – to resell material and to rework existing writing into new forms, so long as it’s done by someone having the appropriate rights and with the knowledge of those purchasing the work. The same would go with reusing research, also a common, and accepted, practice. It’s fine to insist on more stringent standards for course work, but you don’t want to leave students ready to assume that something is an ethical violation when it may not be.

]]> By: Erik Sherman http://journalism.nyu.edu/ethics/handbook/integrity/comment-page-1/#comment-46 Erik Sherman Sun, 04 Nov 2007 08:09:00 +0000 http://journalism.nyu.edu/ethics/handbook/1-integrity/#comment-46 Not to be picky, but I'd question the use of "critique." That certainly can be part of journalism, but often isn't. Not to be picky, but I’d question the use of “critique.” That certainly can be part of journalism, but often isn’t.

]]> By: Douglas McBean, Edinburgh, Scotland http://journalism.nyu.edu/ethics/handbook/integrity/comment-page-1/#comment-15 Douglas McBean, Edinburgh, Scotland Mon, 15 Oct 2007 12:27:52 +0000 http://journalism.nyu.edu/ethics/handbook/1-integrity/#comment-15 Sirs - a great idea to put this online - hopefully not a hostage to fortune! I like the words of Samuel Johnson in this area: "Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful". I am presently preparing an application to the MS program for Fall 2008! Douglas McBean, Edinburgh Sirs – a great idea to put this online – hopefully not a hostage to fortune!

I like the words of Samuel Johnson in this area:

“Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful”.

I am presently preparing an application to the MS program for Fall 2008!

Douglas McBean, Edinburgh

]]> By: Michael Norman http://journalism.nyu.edu/ethics/handbook/integrity/comment-page-1/#comment-7 Michael Norman Sun, 23 Sep 2007 00:34:32 +0000 http://journalism.nyu.edu/ethics/handbook/1-integrity/#comment-7 What troubles me most about this opening gambit in NYU's ethics code are three words missing from this section. "Tell the truth." I know the author and a few of his colleagues went round and round on this, airing perhaps some post-modern angst about the nature of "truth," or perhaps falling prey to some residual deconstructionist impulses. But it seems to me that teachers want to talk to students in the plainest of terms, and that's what we want our students to do -- Tell The Truth. What troubles me most about this opening gambit in NYU’s ethics code are three words missing from this section. “Tell the truth.”

I know the author and a few of his colleagues went round and round on this, airing perhaps some post-modern angst about the nature of “truth,” or perhaps falling prey to some residual deconstructionist impulses.

But it seems to me that teachers want to talk to students in the plainest of terms, and that’s what we want our students to do — Tell The Truth.

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