ABSTRACT
In addition to these common and admirable expectations, the ethics codes of numerous major news organizations lay down many additional markers, sometimes at great length. Conflict of interest is also the first ethics concern of The New York Times:Conflicts of interest, real or apparent, may come up in many areas. Another particular kind of conflict of interest, accepting gifts or favors from news sources, is universally prohibited, but still is subject to considerable elaboration in many journalism codes of ethics. Concerned about partisan fund-raising, National Public Radio (NPR) recently extended its code of ethics to cover programs not produced by NPR but acquired and broadcast by it. Always a standard in journalism ethics codes, fairness is accorded substantial emphasis in many, in particular to require a response from anyone depicted unfavorably in a story.
