dc.contributor.advisor | Davis, Charles N. | eng |
dc.contributor.author | Wolfgang, Justin David | eng |
dc.date.issued | 2011 | eng |
dc.date.submitted | 2011 Fall | eng |
dc.description | Title from PDF of title page (University of Missouri--Columbia, viewed on June 8, 2012). | eng |
dc.description | The entire thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file; a non-technical public abstract appears in the public.pdf file. | eng |
dc.description | Thesis advisor: Dr. Charles N. Davis | eng |
dc.description | Includes bibliographical references. | eng |
dc.description | M.A. University of Missouri--Columbia 2011. | eng |
dc.description | "December 2011" | eng |
dc.description.abstract | This study analyzes website privacy policies used by major news corporations and attempts to understand the newsroom ethics policies as applied to protecting personal information collected about readers. The confluence of the legal and ethical questions revealed a conflicting relationship that possibly exposes news organizations that publish user information to liability while still practicing within the accepted limitations of traditional journalism ethics. Journalists tend to be indignant about the protections they afford to personal information collected on their site, unless the user is a public official using their pseudonym to discuss public issues behind a veil of secrecy. In this situation, journalists not only justify their actions under their ethics policies, but are possibly unknowingly breaching a contract made with each and every reader. In order to protect against liability, news organizations should change their newsroom practices to allow for the disclosure of user information in a very narrowly-constructed situation and amend their privacy policy to align with traditional journalism ethics as applied to privacy situations. | eng |
dc.format.extent | vi, 189 pages | eng |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10355/14580 | |
dc.language | English | eng |
dc.publisher | University of Missouri--Columbia | eng |
dc.relation.ispartofcommunity | University of Missouri-Columbia. Graduate School. Theses and Dissertations. Theses. 2011 Theses | eng |
dc.rights | OpenAccess. | eng |
dc.rights.license | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 License. | |
dc.subject | journalism ethics | eng |
dc.subject | privacy policy | eng |
dc.subject | personal information | eng |
dc.subject | Internet privacy | eng |
dc.title | Data privacy in the newsroom : the ethical justifications of using user data in the reporting process | eng |
dc.type | Thesis | eng |
thesis.degree.discipline | Journalism (MU) | eng |
thesis.degree.grantor | University of Missouri--Columbia | eng |
thesis.degree.level | Masters | eng |
thesis.degree.name | M.A. | eng |