Our ethics policy: Workshopping eight common scenarios

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    • Our combined new company has united behind a single ethics policy. Here’s a chance to get acquainted with the nuances of it, if you haven’t already.

    Manny Garcia and Jean Hodges led the conversation based around real-life scenarios that have come up. Our North Star in all these conversations is our Principles of Ethical Conduct for Newsrooms. It’s our living document that we build upon.

    More training on Ethics & Standards:

    Trans 201

    How to tell holistic stories about trans and gender-diverse individuals. Topics include: Where are all the trans men? Where are the non-white trans folks? Reporting outside the framework of the gender binary. And understanding how your own gendered lens influences story bias.

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    • DEI tagging for editors and producers

    As your newsroom increases storytelling to reflect the communities we serve, what are best practices for tracking the content? Editors and producers are invited to join this session in which we will share revised tags to use for 2022 and what each tag means.

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    • Ethics around graphic violence imagery

    Guidance and best practices around videos containing graphic violence.

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    • Print design: Ethics and diversity

    The choices we make must be truthful, fair, balanced and complete. Each decision happens in the context of many other decisions, both in the same moment and over time.

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