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April 2018 Ethics Update

ETHICS UPDATE / Preventing freelancer plagiarism and conflicts of interest

Posted on April 5, 2018 | by Bridget Botelho

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

Posted on April 3, 2018 | by Kilian Schalk

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

ETHICS UPDATE / Elephants in the room: When it comes to editors and ethics, the enemy may (sometimes) be us

Posted on March 30, 2018 | by Charles Lewis

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

Posted on March 28, 2018 | by JD Solomon

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

Posted on March 27, 2018 | by Beth Mirza

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

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