Saturday, January 3, 2009

A Question of Journalistic Ethics, part 2

Sharing the community’s grief
Little Rock news coverage of three teen-age suicides

It was not a question of whether to report on the suicides of three Sheridan youths within hours of each other, but how to do it with the sensitivity the story — and the community — needed. Read the above story and comment on the way the story was handled by the Arkansas Gazette. What would you do differently in the handling of the story?

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