Transparency! Damn! Gotta Have It. NOW!

The Libby, Enron and Arthur Andersen cases have all put the issue of “transparency” in the forefront of the news. But how transparent are the media themselves? How candid are they about how they cover the news? How willing are the media to make their reporting and editing standards public? According to this new ICMPA study most news outlets are unwilling to let the public see how their editorial process works. Fewer than half of the websites publicly corrected mistakes in their stories and only a handful shared with readers the journalistic and ethical standards that theoretically guide their newsrooms… (Results are continued in Study Conclusions) How the media outlets scored on transparency: Click on each media outlet above for further details. Each of the news outlets above was individually coded in five categories of transparency: Corrections, Ownership, Staff Policies, Reporting Policies and Interactivity. See Understanding Results for a detailed explanation of each category. The chart shows the aggregate score of those categories. For a breakdown of the coding in each of the five categories for all media outlets, see Study Conclusions.

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