Martin Soler
1930 days ago
There will always be a conflict of interest as long as media is sponsored the way it is. The alternative would be to get sponsors from industries that are totally disrelated and officially state that no reporting will be done on those industries. But I doubt sponsors would be interested in paying for journalism to other verticals.
freedommag.org
MEDIA. AND. ETHICS. The combination can be perplexing. Ethics—in the lexicon of rank-and-file journalists—typically means that reporters shouldn’t take gifts, gratuities or favors from sources. Call it what you will, but many within the journalism industry consider it “bribery.”