ABSTRACT
Journalism covers a range of activities, from investigating and reporting for large multi-national, multi-media bodies such as the BBC, CNN or Sky, through covering local and specialist issues for traditional regional and trade press publications. This chapter focuses on the ethical issues that arise from surveillance carried out by journalists in the course of their work. It looks at the categories of investigative journalists and the paparazzi. However, the paradigm-setting example of investigative journalism remains the Watergate investigation carried out by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein for the Washington Post between 1972 and 1976, which ultimately led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon and the imprisonment of several of his closest advisors. Turning from the activities of investigative journalists to those of the paparazzi may seem like a slide from the sublime to the ridiculous. The chapter considers ethical issues arising from surveillance activities undertaken by journalists.
