The document discusses media ethics as a vital branch of philosophy guiding journalists in making moral decisions, focusing on integrity, objectivity, and responsibility to the public. It outlines key concepts such as safeguarding freedom of information, respect for privacy, and the importance of accurate reporting while emphasizing that ethical standards should be applied voluntarily. Additionally, it stresses the role of journalists to serve the public's right to know and to foster dialogue with the audience.

1. CHAUDHARY CHARAN SINGH UNIVERSITY CAMPUS
MEERUT
REPORTED BY - ANKIT KUMAR
BJMC 2ND YR. 3RD SEM.
ADOPTED BY-MR. MANOJ KUMAR
SRIVASTAVA SIR (H.O.D.)
JOURNALISM AND MASS
COMMUNICATION

2. MEDIA ETHICS
JOURNALISTIC CODES USUALLY TAKE INTO ACCOUNT THE
FOLLOWING CONCEPTS.
Safeguarding freedom of information.
Freedom of access to information sources.
Objectivity, accuracy, truthfulness or the non-misrepresentation
of facts.
Responsibility to the public, and its rights and interests and in
relation to national, racial and religious communities, the
nation, the state and the maintenance of peace.

3. The obligation to refrain from calumny, unfounded accusations, slander,
violations of privacy,
Integrity and independence.
The right of reply and of correction.
Respect of professional confidentially.
Consideration for the cultural, social or ethics codes of individual
countries.
However ,’The scope of professional ethics is much wider than the texts of
legal codes for in attempting to achieve a just balance between freedom
and responsibility, the ethical aspect of this dichotomy depends not only
on conscious decisions by a journalist, bur also on practices in the media
and the general social environment.

4. MEDIA ETHICS OR JOURNALISM ETHICS
Media ethics is a branch of philosophy concerned with actions that are morally
permissible and those that are not. Media ethics assist media workers in
determining several alternatives. Media ethics therefore be applied voluntarily.
Ethics should set guidelines, rules, norms, codes and principles that will lead
journalists and all other media works to make moral decisions. They should
not be forced to do so because ethics is applied voluntarily.
Normative ethics is concerned with what people and institutions ought to do
and how they should conduct themselves. Media workers are part of society
and therefore, function within the parameters set by the expectations
provident in a society at a particular time. Apart from society, the government
of the media ought to do. Consequently, a nation’s media, more than any
other kind of institution is shaped by the prevailing political power.

5. CODE OF ETHICS FOR JOURNALISM
The primary function of newspapers is to communicate to the
human race what is members do feel and think. Journalism, therefore,
demands of its practitioners the widest range of intelligence, or knowledge,
and trained powers of observation and reasoning.
RESPONSIBILITY
It is the right of the public’s right to know events and the purpose of distributing news
and the enlightened opinion is to serve the general welfare. Journalist’s who use their
professional status as representatives of the public for selfish other unworthy motives
violate a high trust.
 FREEDOM OF PRESS
Freedom of the press is to be guarded as right of people in a free society. It carries with
it the responsibility to discuss, question and challenge actions and utterance of the
government public and private institutions.

6.  ETHICS
Journalist must be free of obligations to any interest other than the public’s right
to know the truth, gifts, favors, special treatments can compromise the integrity
of journalists.
 ACCURACY&OBJECTIVITY
Trust is the ultimate goal of the journalist. Objectivity in reporting the news is
another goal, which serves as the mark of an experienced professional. There is
no excuse for inaccuracies or lack of thoroughness.
 FAIR PLAY
Journalists at all times should show respect for the dignity, privacy, rights, and
well-being encountered in the course of gathering and presenting the news. The
news media should not communicate unofficial charges affecting reputation or
moral character without giving the accused a chance to reply. Journalists should
be accountable to the public for their reports and the public should be
encourage to voice its grievances against the media open dialogue with the
readers, viewers and listeners should be fostered.

7.  PLEDGE
Journalists should actively censure and try to prevent violations of standards as
adherence to this code of ethics is intended to preserve the bond of mutual trust and
respect between journalists an the public.

8. THANK YOU