With ASBPE’s May 10-11 conference nearing, we preview ethical issues at the forefront. Offering ethics guidance to ASBPE members—privately through our ethics advisories, or more broadly through newsletters, webinars and roundtables—has always been a key function of the organization’s Ethics Committee. … read more
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ETHICS UPDATE / Preventing freelancer plagiarism and conflicts of interest
This article by Bridget Botelho, a member of ASBPE’s Ethics Committee, is the final essay in our spring Ethics Update newsletter. We Committee members hope to see you at the National Conference May 10-11 in Washington, DC, where … read more
ETHICS UPDATE / Should it stay or should it go? Church and State in the modern media environment
Process-improvement expert Kilian Schalk led a Feb. 28 webcast for ASBPE in which he suggested ways to achieve better communication between the editors’ and the publishers’ sides of our businesses. Asked by Ethics Update to elaborate for this … read more
10+ Terrific Things to Try in DC
While You’re In D.C. for ASBPE’s 2018 B2B Media Success Conference and Azbee Awards of Excellence Banquet … Washington is full of surprises during your May visit, with no fewer than four journalism-themed restaurants, a spy museum, the Capitol Steps … read more
ETHICS UPDATE / Elephants in the room: When it comes to editors and ethics, the enemy may (sometimes) be us
Charles Lewis, one of America’s top investigative journalism authorities, will speak at ASBPE’s May 10-11 National Conference in Washington, DC. At the request of the Ethics Committee, he shares in this article some thoughts about ethical issues that … read more
ETHICS UPDATE / How to use vendors as sources and stay on the right side of the editorial-advertising boundary
JD Solomon will discuss similar issues at ASBPE’s May 10-11 National Conference in a talk titled “Navigating the Minefield of Editorial-Advertising Conflicts.” He also will participate in an Ethics Roundtable there.—Roy Harris, Interim Ethics Committee Chair I began … read more
ETHICS UPDATE / From #MeToo to #TimesUp, HR Magazine and human-resource society become voices of a movement
This article marks the spring resumption of the ASBPE Ethics Committee’s newsletter, Ethics Update. Every now and then a publication finds itself in the midst of a huge ethical groundswell. That happened at HR Magazine and SHRM Online … read more
Best practices for summer internships
Improve your internship program before summer by applying some of these tips from experts. With spring almost here, it’s time for publishing companies to consider hiring an intern for the summer. Summer internships are a great way to … read more
Dos and don’ts of trade shows
Nine things to make editors’ trade show experience easier. Trade show season always means long workdays for editors both before and during the show. Before the show requires much planning, and editors receive a surge in emails from … read more
7 Videos You Can Make in 7 Minutes (or Less) Using Only your iPhone
Is it just me, or is Twitter brimming with videos these days? They’re all over the place and I love it! After playing with easy video apps for years at this point (Years! That’s scary), I can easily … read more