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Book description

Global Media Ethics is the first comprehensive cross-cultural exploration of the conceptual and practical issues facing media ethics in a global world. A team of leading journalism experts investigate the impact of major global trends on responsible journalism.

• The first full-length, truly global textbook on media ethics
• Explores how current global changes in media promote and inhibit responsible journalism
• Includes relevant and timely ethical discussions based on major trends in journalism and global media
• Questions existing frameworks in Media Ethics in light of the impact of global media
• Contributors are leading experts in global journalism and communication

Stephen J. A. Ward is Director of the George S. Turnbull Center in Portland, Oregon. The center is the Portland base of the University of Oregon's School of Journalism and Communication. Previously, he was the Burgess Chair of Journalism Ethics and Director of the Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Ward is the author of the award-winning The Invention of Journalism Ethics: The Path to Objectivity and Beyond (2005), Global Journalism Ethics (2010), and Ethics and the Media: An Introduction (2011); he is the coeditor of Media Ethics Beyond Borders: A Global Perspective (2010).