Acknowledgments.

Introduction.

Part I: Painting The Larger Picture: Media, Ethical Codes, and the Internet Age

1. Online Media Ethics in Perspective.

2. The Role of Media in Democratic Society.

3. New Challenges: Who is a Journalist in the Internet Era?

4. Privacy

· Collecting and selling data on website visitors.

· Making judgments based on Internet behavior and activity.

· Surreptitious monitoring of others’ email and Web use.

· Complying with governmental demands to turn over private information

5. Speech

· Permitting hateful and harassing speech on your website or forum.

· Posting of offensive images.

· Complying with governmental demands for removal of specified information or voices

6. Intellectual Property and Copyright

· Copying and downloading copyrighted material on the Internet.

· Determining the appropriate level of protection for your own online works.

· The ethics of active non-compliance to existing copyright laws

7. Speed and Accuracy.

8. Sources and Searches: Does the Internet Make Journalists Lazy?.

9. When Business and Ethics Collide: Advertising, the Internet and Editorial Independence

Appendixes:

Ethical Codes of Leading Professional Media Associations.

Ethical Codes for Gannett Newspapers