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MADISON—With the proliferation of digital devices, how we consume and produce media has changed dramatically over the past ten years. This changed media landscape can lead to not only questionable coverage of news events, but also questionable actions and reactions. As part of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters’ Academy Evenings series, Stephen J.A. Ward argues for a new journalism ethics and a complete revamping of how we think about the responsibilities of media in a talk entitled, Global Journalism Ethics in a Post-9/11 World. This Academy Evenings talk is on Tuesday, November 15, at 7:00 pm, at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art lecture hall, 227 State Street. Doors open at 6:15 pm. Free and open to the public.
Stephen J. A. Ward is the first James E. Burgess Professor of Journalism Ethics in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is also director of the school’s Center for Journalism Ethics. A reporter, war correspondent, and newsroom and bureau manager, Ward is the author of several books, including the award-winning The Invention of Journalism Ethics: The Path to Objectivity and Beyond (2005). He is associate editor of the Journal of Mass Media Ethics. His articles and reviews have appeared widely in national journals, and he serves on many editorial and advisory boards for ethics organizations and journals on media ethics and science. His blog and Twitter feed #MediaMorals are featured on the ethics center’s website. He is an ethics columnist for several leading publications, including the PBS web site, Media Shift.
The fall 2011 Academy Evenings series is sponsored by the Pleasant T. Rowland Foundation, the Great Performance Fund at the Madison Community Foundation, Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, University of Wisconsin-Madison, M&I Bank, Reinhart Boerner Van Duren s.c., the Wisconsin Center for the Study of Liberal Democracy, and Isthmus Publishing Company.
About Academy Evenings
Academy Evenings engage the public in a wide variety of topics of public interest and feature Wisconsin’s leading thinkers, scholars, and artists. These free forums are intended to encourage public interaction with these leaders in an intimate atmosphere designed to foster discussion and build community. The Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters sponsors Academy Evenings regularly in Overture Center for the Arts in Madison and at other venues across the state. For more information on Academy Evenings in your area, visit wisconsinacademy.org/evenings.
