Media, Markets, And Morals

• Brings together experts in the fields of media studies and media ethics, information ethics, and professional ethics
• Offers an original ethical framework designed specifically for evaluating ethical issues in the media, including new media
• Builds upon and further develops an innovative theoretical model for examining and evaluating media corruption and methods of media anti-corruption previously developed by authors Spence and Quinn
• Discloses and clarifies the inherent ethical nature of information and its communication to which the media as providers of information are necessarily committed

Aaron Quinn is Assistant Professor of Journalism at California State University, Chico. He has published work in academic journals including The Journal of Mass Media Ethics and The International Journal of Applied Philosophy, and contributed chapters published by Oxford University Press and Cambridge Scholars Press. He previously worked as a newspaper and magazine reporter, photographer and editor.

Andrew Alexandra is Senior Research Fellow and Director of the Australian Research Council funded Special Research Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (CAPPE) at the University of Melbourne. He has published Police Ethics, co-authored with J. Blackler and S. Miller, (1997, 2006), Private Military Companies: Ethics, Theory and Practice, co-edited with D. Baker and M. Caparini, (2008), and Integrity Systems for Occupations, co-authored with Seumas Miller, (2010).

Anne Dunn is Associate Professor in the Department of Media and Communications at the University of Sydney, and was Acting Dean of the Faculty of Arts from 2009 to 2010. She has written on media ethics for academic journals including Ethical Space and is co-author with H. Fulton, R. Huisman and J. Murphet of Narrative and Media (Campbridge University Press 2005). She spent more than 20 years working as a presenter, media researcher, journalist, producer and director for commercial television, SBS and for the ABC. Her work includes award-winning television and film documentaries.

2: Information Ethics as a Guide for the Media: Old Tricks for New Dogs.

3: The Business of the Media and the Business of the Market.

4: Professionalism in Behaviour and Identity.

5: A Conflict of Media Roles: Advertising, Public Relations and Journalism.

6: Corruption in the Media.

7: Two Dimensions of Photo Manipulation: Correction and Corruption.

8: Promoting, Codifying and Regulating Ethics.

9: Moral Excellence and Role Models in the Media.