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Video

Video 1: Shattered glass

Description: (US$2.99 on YouTube.) This fact-based film (running time 1:33:50) depicts the rise and fall of disgraced journalist Stephen Glass (Hayden Christensen), who was a staff writer at The New Republic and contributed stories to Rolling Stone and other magazines. Glass fabricated many of his stories, which led to his downfall.

Video 2: The five core values of Journalism

Description: The director of the Ethical Journalism Network describes the five values that are the foundation of ethical journalism. They are: accuracy, independence, impartiality, humanity and accountability.

Web

Web 1: The SPJ code of ethics

Description: Members of the Society of Professional Journalists believe that public enlightenment is the forerunner of justice and the foundation of democracy. Ethical journalism strives to ensure the free exchange of information that is accurate, fair and thorough. An ethical journalist acts with integrity. The Society declares these four principles as the foundation of ethical journalism and encourages their use in its practice by all people in all media.

Web 2: CORRECTING THE RECORD; Times reporter who resigned leaves long trail of Deception

Description: Investigation by team of New York Times journalists finds reporter Jayson Blair committed frequent acts of journalistic fraud while covering significant news events in recent months; major findings are these: he filed dispatches that purported to be from Maryland, Texas and other states, when often he was in New York; fabricated comments, concocted scenes and lifted material from other newspapers and wire services; also he selected details from photographs to create impression he had been somewhere or seen someone, when he had not.