Course Name: JOURNALISM ETHICS AND PRACTICES
This course enable learner on how to apply the concepts discussed in class and in the readings to ethical issues within media content and also Improve students’ ability to communicate complex ideas, theory, and research findings. Furthermore, it help a learner to Gain familiarity with contemporary scholarly analysis of media ethics.
Lessons
JST 04103: Journalism Ethics and Practice is First Semester subject in Basic Technician Certificate (NTA Level 4 ) with SIX (6) credits course. This course aimed to; 1. Enable journalists to develop tools of analysis that would help in making sound judgments and rational decisions in facing ethical problems or dilemmas. 2. Enable journalists reacquaint with the necessary knowledge of journalism ethics. “The goal of ethics is not to make ethical judgments with which everyone agrees but to increase our ability to defend our critical judgments on some rational basis.” DAY
This Lesson elaborate ETHICS, MEDIA ETHICS AND OVERLAPPING ISSUES.
At the end of this Lesson learner will be able to get familiarity with, The codes of Ethics for Media Practitioners loaded with dos and don’ts salted with an occasional element on the decision-making process.
IN THIS LESSON EVALUATION IS GOING TO BE DONE IN AFTER AVERY LECTURE/TUTORIAL.