THE ETHICS PROJECT

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - MOST JOURNALISTS, including many of those at The Boston Globe, would insist that they possess a solid ethical foundation for the work they do every day. Yet even the most experienced journalist would benefit from a regular reexamination of journalistic ethics the standards and practices we use to determine what we report and why, in our quest to uncover and explain the truth for the public. Sixteen American journalists including this one gathered last week at the Poynter Institute for Media Studies to begin a yearlong journey of ethical reexamination of our news organiza...