ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an empirical map of some ethical challenges that today's journalists in the countries of the Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa (BRICS) coalition perceive and experience, and of how they deal with them in their daily practice. It presents for each of the BRICS countries: legal definitions of corruption in general and those sections of journalism codes of ethics that exemplify how legal definitions of corruption are translated into guidelines for journalistic practice. The chapter includes the current politico-economic context in which news media in these countries operate, particularly the predominance of the market logic and deregulation in journalism, but also the socio-cultural environ, where relevant. It also includes issues such as shifts, if any, in journalism practice from allegiance to an ethical idealism to a practice that is laced with corruption, and how these ideas of idealism and corruption may have different meanings across the BRICS countries.
