Andy Schotz, our chapter prez and national ethics committe chair, pointed out a piece in today’s People’s Daily Online that uses the SPJ Code of Ethics — along with the codes from RTNDA and ASNE — to basically tell U.S. journalists to stop criticizing the way China does journalism.
I put up a few comments on the SPJ International Journalism Committee blog site this morning. There will be more. As I said in my first posting, I need to calm down a bit before getting into the fight.
On the positive side of the international attention the ethics code gets, Clave Digital in the Dominican Republic continues to operate under a code of ethics based on the SPJ code.
The Clave editors met with then SPJ President David Carlson and asked if they could use the code as a basis for their own publication. Carslon agreed.
At the opening party for a new Clave monthly, the editor in chief publically thanked the SPJ for helping the publication develop a strong code of ethics for all to follow.