Ethics

— See Journalism section for Codes and Guidelines

Alsudais, Abdulkareem. Incorrect Data in the Widely Used Inside Airbnb Dataset. 2020

Belmont Report (US govt)

Cabreros, Irineo. Side-stepping safeguards, data journalists are doing science now. Undark. 2021

Chalabi, Mona. Mapping kidnappings in Nigeria. 538. 2014

Christian, Sue Ellen. Cognitive Biases and Errors as Cause — and Journalistic Best Practices as Effect. Journal of Mass Media Ethics. 28:3, 2013. p. 160-74. Library resource

Craig et al., To Post or Not to Post: Online Discussion of Gun Permit Mapping and the Development of Ethical Standards in Data Journalism. *Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly*, January 2017

Craig et al. Ethical questions in data journalism and the power of online discussion. Datajournalism.com, 2017

Criado-Perez, Caroline. Invisible women: data bias in a world designed for men. Vintage, 2019. Library resource

Diakopoulos, Nick. BuzzFeed’s pro tennis investigation displays ethical dilemmas of data journalism. CJR, 2016.

Diakopoulos, Nick. The ethics of predictive journalism. CJR, 2020

Harris, Jacob. Connecting with the dots

Heydt, Michael. Scraping. Code of conduct. Python web scraping cookbook, Packt, 2018. Library resource

Knight Center. Ethics and equity in data journalism. Online course. 2020

Marconi, Francesco. Newsmakers: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Journalism. Columbia University Press, 2020. Library resource

NPR. Did George Floyd die or was he murdered? 2020

Open Data Institute. Assessing risk when sharing data: a guide. Feb 2022

Reuters. Microsoft’s LinkedIn loses appeal over access to user profiles, Sept 2019

Rogers, Richard. The API and the ethics turn. Doing Digital Methods. Sage, 2019, p. 206-09

Singel, Ryan. Netflix spilled your Brokeback Mountain secret, lawsuit claims. Wired, 2009

Tameez, Hanaa. What type of local news stories should be automated?, Nielman Lab, 2022

UK Statistics Authority. Ethical considerations in the use of geospatial data. May 2021 [includes checklist]

Wilson, Greg et al. Good enough practices in scientific computing. PLOS. 2017