Press Laws and Ethics of Journalism

Contents: Preface. 1. Codes of ethics of journalism. 2. The need for ethics. 3. Ethics of disputable stories. 4. Personal privacy. 5. Internal controls. 6. Media self-regulation. 7. Watchdogs check wrong-doing. 8. Media obsession with stardom. 9. The media and innovation. 10. Sourcing and attributing information. 11. Search for truth. 12. Ethics of decision making. 13. Conflict of interest. 14. Insistence on objectivity. 15. Contempt of court. 16. Defamation. 17. Ethics of covering riots. 18. Ethics of photojournalism. 19. Ethics of advertising. 20. Ethics of event managers and PR firms. 21. Media role in democratizing society. Annexures. Index.

"Everything a student of the BMM course needs to know on Press Laws and Ethics of Journalism is contained in this volume. This book by a veteran journalist draws upon his five-decade long experience in some of the country\'s top publications. The contents of this book are notes of lectures delivered by him in some prestigious colleges in Mumbai in the three years since the course was introduced.

It is thus an ideal textbook for the subject which is an important component of the BMM course." (jacket)