Capstone Research (3rd Week of Feb.)

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For this week, I have mostly been attempting to set up interviews rather than doing much research. However, I did read a few ethical tips and practices out of Sound Reporting: The NPR Guide to Audio Journalism and Production by Jonathan Kern. These ethical practices include fairness, being unbiased, and being accurate.

• Fairness: This involves the presentation of all important views on a particular subject (Kern 9).

• Unbiased: Our own personal opinions and views on matters should be separated from the subjects that are being covered (Kern 9). I actually question the thought that something can be completely unbiased. However, I am striving to be as unbiased as possible even though I am looking at the issues that I am covering from an ethological perspective of the students.

• Accuracy: Facts should be completely accurate and presented in the correct context (Kern 9). Assertions of fact and implied facts as a basis for opinion must be correct (Kern 9). Omission should not occur because incomplete information can mislead (Kern 9).

Besides this, I also found a section of the book on podcasting. This section mentions that, even though there isn't a time slot with podcasting such as there is with radio, the time should still be relatively consistent (Kern 327). For example, a podcast that lasts 10-15 minutes on average should not suddenly turn into a one hour segment. Subscribers become used to a certain time for podcasts. These bits of information are some of what I have read this week.



Kern, Jonathan. Sound Reporting: the NPR Guide to Audio Journalism and Production. Chicago: University of Chicago, 2008. Print.