
Leadership Skills
Creating Safe and Fair Newsrooms
News organizations must create safe and fair workplaces in which everyone can do their best work. Though it might seem counterintuitive, understanding why and how unethical behavior persists and creates unfair and unsafe workplaces is a prerequisite to understanding how to create safe and fair workplaces.
What You'll Learn:
- An understanding of how the concepts of behavioral ethics — cognitive biases, social and organizational pressures and situational factors — enable sexual harassment to continue in news organizations.
- An understanding of the organizational factors that contribute to unethical behavior such as networks of complicity, problematic newsroom policies and practices, and toxic newsroom cultures.
- Familiarity with sexual harassment law.
- Practice thinking about how to respond if you were to see someone being subjected to unethical or illegal behavior in a news organization.
- An understanding of how to create a newsroom that is a safe and fair workplace in which journalists can do their best work.
Videos
Understanding Sexual Harassment Through the Behavioral Ethics Lens
Networks of Complicity
#What Now: Pressing Forward in the Workplace
Module Overview
Creating Safe and Fair NewsroomsReadings
Minette E. Drumwright and Peggy H. Cunningham
Unethical Newsroom Behavior: Paradoxes and a Perfect Storm
Minette E. Drumwright, Robert Prentice and Cara Biasucci
Behavioral Ethics and Teaching Ethical Decision Making
Additional Resources
Ethics Unwrapped: Concepts Unwrapped
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