Good News, Bad News

Good News, Bad News examines the role that journalism ethics play in shaping the direction and priorities of the press. The focus will primarily be on newspapers because it is in newspapers that the battle for American journalism's soul is still being fought.

Jeremy Iggers is a staff writer at the Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune. Currently the Star Tribune's restaurant critic, he has also written an ethics column and created several public journalism projects for the newspaper. He has a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Minnesota and has written extensively on food issues, ethics, and journalism. His last book, Garden of Eating, won the 1996 Minnesota Book Award for nonfiction.

Introduction -- 1 How Journalists Talk About Ethics -- 2 Talking in Code(s): The Foundations of Journalism Ethics -- 3 Contemporary Ethical Concepts in Historical Context -- 4 Journalism Since Cooke: The Corporate Cultural Revolution -- 5 Objectivity's Legacy -- 6 The Myth of Neutrality and the Ideology of Information -- 7 Toward a Pragmatist Ethical Theory for Journalism -- 8 Toward a Public Journalism