Bloggers and transparency?

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  Bloggers continue to make news and raise eyebrows in this historic political season. Blog issues persist, grow and continue to jab at the press and the public alike.  Among the issues: Are bloggers journalists with First Amendment rights? If bloggers write about politics are they afforded the expanded legal benefits covered by political speech? Do bloggers need to reveal themselves to sources and online? Do bloggers need a code of ethics? Does anyone care?

  The New York Times examines some these questions in Jacques Steinberg’s Sunday (June 8th ) piece. See it here:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/08/weekinreview/08steinberg.html?_r=1&scp=3&sq=Mayhill%20Fowler&st=cse&oref=slogin

  Note that two people quoted in the Times article will be featured at the 4^th Annual Poynter KSU Media Ethics Workshop on Sept. 18. Kelly McBride, ethics group leader at the Poynter Institute, will be the lead facilitator for discussion of the important questions of online ethics and rules for bloggers. Jay Rosen, journalism professor at NYU and creator of PressThink, is one of the keynote speakers.

For more information about the Media Ethics Workshop ***

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