ETHICS BOOKS AVAILABLE IN BANGSBERG FACULTY LOUNGE

All of these books are on the shelf in the Bangsberg lounge on 2nd floor. If the door is open, feel free to go in and browse. Please do not leave the building with the books. If the lounge is locked, ask me or the mass comm. secretary (Roxanne) to let you in. Enjoy!


ETHICS FOR THE MEDIA, Rivers/Mathews, 1988, Prentice Hall

THE RESPONSIBLE REPORTER: NEWSGATHERING AND WRITING WITH THE HIGHEST STANDARDS OF PROFESSIONALISM AND PERSONAL CONDUCT, Evensen, 1997, Vision Press

DOING ETHICS IN JOURNALISM: A HANDBOOK WITH CASE STUDIES, Black, Steele, Barney; 1995, Allyn & Bacon

DESPERATELY SEEKING ETHICS: A GUIDE TO MEDIA CONDUCT, Good, 2003, Scarecrow Press

MEDIA ETHICS: A PHILOSOPHICAL APPROACH, Kieran, 1999, Praeger Press

MEDIA ETHICS: ISSUES AND CASES, Patterson & Wilkins, 2005, McGraw-Hill

ETHICS IN MEDIA COMMUNICATIONS: CASES AND CONTROVERSIES, Day, 2006, Thomson-Wadsworth

MEDIA ETHICS: CASES AND MORAL REASONING, Christians, et. al., 2005, Pearson

COMMUNICATING ETHICALLY: CHARACTER, DUTIES, CONSEQUENCES AND RELATIONSHIPS, Neher & Sandin, 2007, Pearson

MASS COMMUNICATION ETHICS: DECISION IN POSTMODERN CULTURE, Leslie, 2000, Houghton Mifflin

JOSH WOLF IS OUT OF PRISON!!!

PRESS RELEASE: The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE -- Contact: Lucy Dalglish, (703) 807-2100

Reporters Committee applauds release of jailed journalist
April 3, 2007


The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press applauds the long-overdue release of journalist Josh Wolf from government confinement. Wolf's lawyers report that a judge has signed the release order and he is expected to be free later today.


Wolf, who refused to comply with a grand jury subpoena for his testimony and video outtakes, spent 226 days in a federal prison in California for civil contempt of court. The 24-year-old video blogger spent more time behind bars for contempt than any other American journalist in recent history.


Federal officials wanted Wolf to testify and to turn over a videotape they alleged might contain footage of crimes committed at a July 2005 anarchist rally.


Following a second mediation attempt Monday, Wolf published the footage in full on his Web site and said in a sworn statement that he did not have any information regarding the crimes that were being investigated by the grand jury.


Prosecutors then filed a motion Tuesday requesting Wolf's release, although they requested that he be dismissed from custody "without prejudice," which means that Wolf could theoretically be served with another subpoena.


David Greene, one of Wolf's attorneys, said that another subpoena is unlikely. Greene also said that there was little possibility of Wolf being charged with criminal contempt.


Wolf was first jailed on Aug. 1 when he refused to comply with the subpoena but was granted bail Aug. 31 pending a decision by a panel of appeals court judges. The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press filed a friend-of-the-court brief and prepared an affidavit on behalf of Wolf.


The panel affirmed the contempt order Sept. 8, and Wolf returned to prison later that month. The full appeals court declined to hear the case, and a new motion for Wolf's release was denied by the trial court in January.