Media accountability : who will watch the watchdog in the Twitter age? / edited by William A. Babcock - London ; New York : Routledge 2012 - vii, 164 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Chapters 1-8 were originally published as two special issues of the Journal of mass media ethics.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Mocking the news: how The Daily Show with Jon Stewart holds traditional broadcast news accountable / Toward an open ethics: implications of new media platforms for global ethics discourse / Recommendations for hosting audience comments based on discourse ethics / Newsgathering and privacy: expanding ethics codes to reflect change in the digital media age / Social audits as media watchdogging / Ethical implications of anonymous comments posted to online news stories / The ethics examiner and media councils: improving ombudsmanship and news councils for true citizen journalism / "I am eating a sandwich now" : intent and foresight in the Twitter age / Ethics and eloquence in journalism: an approach to press accountability / Chad Painter and Louis Hodges -- Stephen J. A. Ward and Herman Wasserman -- Mark Cenite and Yu Zhang -- Ginny Whitehouse -- Walter B. Jaehnig and Uche Onyebadi -- Laura Hlavach and William H. Freivogel -- Rick Kenney and Kerem Ozkan -- Stacy Elizabeth Stevenson and Lee Anne Peck -- Theodore L. Glasser and James S. Ettema.

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