Journalistic Ethics in the Newsroom: The Case of the Amhara Mass Media Agency
| dc.contributor.advisor | Simon, Gebremedhin (PhD) | |
| dc.contributor.author | Eshetu, Wolelaw | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-07-04T07:34:02Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-11-08T13:37:53Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-07-04T07:34:02Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-11-08T13:37:53Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2012-06 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Journalistic ethics is a key issue of concern among not only journalists and journalism educators but also the general public, and particularly so in a transitional society. So, in the time of information society, getting ethical journalists in all media house is indispensible for the people to exercise the right to know the truth. As one can easily guess, truth or information is a power and gives people a big power. This power can transform the society in to a new level of development. Ethical journalists are the one who facilitate this power to be used by the people. When journalists become unable to accomplish this role, the society will lose the trusts and label journalists or the profession as a whole untrustworthy and dishonesty. However, the media have the responsibility of serving the people by providing fair, balanced and accurate stories in a responsible manner. So, this thesis aims at exploring the state of journalistic ethics in the newsroom of the Amhara mass media agency. In the newsroom, journalists (reporters) do not give due attention to journalistic ethical principles needed in the newsroom. That some people are heard complaining about journalistic ethics are violated and affected by journalist own biases, personal interest, subjective judgments and the like are the main factors of it. Thus, ethical issues and news credibility may be neglected. So, the researcher tries to identify ethical problems, observed in the newsroom in the case of the Amhara mass media agency. The study is conducted in Amhara mass media agency‟s newsroom. The researcher gathered data through individual in-depth interview and focus group discussion with Amhara mass media newsroom‟s editors and reporters (journalists) respectively. Moreover, to attain the research objective easily and reach at valid findings, the study tries to use the researcher‟s own observation. The results show that the major respondents have said; fairness and balanced reporting, objectivity, social responsibility and conflicts of interest are affected by different ways in the newsroom. In this particular research topic the researchers also able to find many details for internal and external factors of journalists that influence ethical decision making process in the newsroom. Those are: individual, small group (editors, managers, or colleagues), organizations, professional problems, economic factors, psychological factors, and self-censorship of journalists. Based on the finding, therefore, the researcher recommends the media stakeholders to work more on professional journalistic ethics, confident, responsible and skilled journalists are needed in the newsroom. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/123456789/6201 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Addis Ababa University | en_US |
| dc.subject | Ethics in the Newsroom | en_US |
| dc.title | Journalistic Ethics in the Newsroom: The Case of the Amhara Mass Media Agency | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |