Ethics

A careful look at when a student newsroom should grant a source anonymity, the conditions to attach, and the credibility cost of overusing it.

How to write a persuasive editorial or op-ed that argues a clear position while keeping the newsroom’s news coverage credible.

Guidance for reporting carefully on mental health, protests, and campus crime without sensationalizing difficult subjects or causing further harm.

A framework for weighing privacy, public value, and potential harm before deciding what a student newsroom should and should not publish.

A step-by-step guide to writing and following a corrections policy that turns mistakes into evidence of your newsroom’s honesty.

Publishing power is real, even at a student newspaper. Here is a framework for thinking through the ethical decisions that will come up every semester — before they come up.

Campus journalism regularly confronts stories involving real harm to real people. Here is how to cover mental health, protests, and crime with accuracy, care, and the moral seriousness the subjects deserve.