Development of journalism ethics: a comparative analysis of codes of ethics in Nigeria, United Kingdom, United States of America, India, and Russia

Journalism codes of ethics are developed to guide journalists through their day-to-day encounter with ethical dilemma in the course of discharging method to find the similarities and differences in codes of ethics as promulgated their duties. The codes and canons provide journalists a framework for...

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Main Authors: Topic Peremobowei Akoje, Mohd Helmi Abd Rahim
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Language:English
Published: Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysian 2014
Online Access:http://journalarticle.ukm.my/8590/
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spelling ukm-85902016-12-14T06:47:38Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/8590/ Development of journalism ethics: a comparative analysis of codes of ethics in Nigeria, United Kingdom, United States of America, India, and Russia Topic Peremobowei Akoje, Mohd Helmi Abd Rahim, Journalism codes of ethics are developed to guide journalists through their day-to-day encounter with ethical dilemma in the course of discharging method to find the similarities and differences in codes of ethics as promulgated their duties. The codes and canons provide journalists a framework for self-monitoring and self-correction. This subset of media ethics is widely known to journalists as their professional “codes of ethics” or the “canons of journalism”. However, efforts by professional journalism bodies to come up with universally acceptable standards of codes of ethics is still suffering setback because most codes of ethics are rooted in the socio-cultural, religious and political milieu of the countries they emanated from. The researcher had used comparative by five countries under review. There are several common cognitions such as truth and accuracy that are central values in journalism ethical codes of the five countries despite the fact that they were built on diverse nations’ politics and cultures. However, the five nations possess different regulations, yet, the researcher attempts to interpret the advantages while ignoring the drawbacks from those mentioned countries’ codes for the purpose of developing a code of ethics to guide journalists to run their duty with universal values in the journalism practicing industry. Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysian 2014 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/8590/1/V30_2_12.pdf Topic Peremobowei Akoje, and Mohd Helmi Abd Rahim, (2014) Development of journalism ethics: a comparative analysis of codes of ethics in Nigeria, United Kingdom, United States of America, India, and Russia. Jurnal Komunikasi ; Malaysian Journal of Communication, 30 (2). pp. 221-238. ISSN 0128-1496 http://www.ukm.my/jkom/journal/volumes/volume30-2-2014.html
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description Journalism codes of ethics are developed to guide journalists through their day-to-day encounter with ethical dilemma in the course of discharging method to find the similarities and differences in codes of ethics as promulgated their duties. The codes and canons provide journalists a framework for self-monitoring and self-correction. This subset of media ethics is widely known to journalists as their professional “codes of ethics” or the “canons of journalism”. However, efforts by professional journalism bodies to come up with universally acceptable standards of codes of ethics is still suffering setback because most codes of ethics are rooted in the socio-cultural, religious and political milieu of the countries they emanated from. The researcher had used comparative by five countries under review. There are several common cognitions such as truth and accuracy that are central values in journalism ethical codes of the five countries despite the fact that they were built on diverse nations’ politics and cultures. However, the five nations possess different regulations, yet, the researcher attempts to interpret the advantages while ignoring the drawbacks from those mentioned countries’ codes for the purpose of developing a code of ethics to guide journalists to run their duty with universal values in the journalism practicing industry.
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author Topic Peremobowei Akoje,
Mohd Helmi Abd Rahim,
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Development of journalism ethics: a comparative analysis of codes of ethics in Nigeria, United Kingdom, United States of America, India, and Russia
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title Development of journalism ethics: a comparative analysis of codes of ethics in Nigeria, United Kingdom, United States of America, India, and Russia
title_short Development of journalism ethics: a comparative analysis of codes of ethics in Nigeria, United Kingdom, United States of America, India, and Russia
title_full Development of journalism ethics: a comparative analysis of codes of ethics in Nigeria, United Kingdom, United States of America, India, and Russia
title_fullStr Development of journalism ethics: a comparative analysis of codes of ethics in Nigeria, United Kingdom, United States of America, India, and Russia
title_full_unstemmed Development of journalism ethics: a comparative analysis of codes of ethics in Nigeria, United Kingdom, United States of America, India, and Russia
title_sort development of journalism ethics: a comparative analysis of codes of ethics in nigeria, united kingdom, united states of america, india, and russia
publisher Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysian
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