Ethics in Journalism - Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 1. the ability to make fair, neutral observations about people and events
  2. 4. To persuade the journalists to write favorably about certain people or businesses
  3. 7. The source understands that his or her name will be published
  4. 8. the opportunity for permitting a person criticized in a story to respond to that criticism in the same story.
  5. 9. Reputation of being right
  6. 10. the taking and using as one's own the writing or inventions of another person.
  7. 11. The quality of possessing an inner sense of knowing right from wrong and adhering to high moral principles or professional standards
  8. 13. Writing into the story where the information came from and allowing the public to decide for itself whether to believe the story
  9. 15. the ability to inspire belief and trust
  10. 17. a system of moral principles
Down
  1. 1. Sources who don't want to be named
  2. 2. a libel defense that projects a journalist's expressed opinion of public figures or reviews of books, records, and the like
  3. 3. a damaging false statement against another person or institution spoken or broadcast extemporaneously.
  4. 5. comments made on the floor of congress, in the state legislature, or in a courtroom that, if published, are immune to libel suits.
  5. 6. fictional characters a news writer creates by using characteristics of several real people.
  6. 12. Withdraws the original statement
  7. 14. Getting all facts right and always seeking the truth
  8. 16. written defamation; damaging false statements against another person or institution that appear in writing or that are spoken (broadcast) from a written script.