When he provided advice to student journalists earlier this month, Robert Niles suggested they take a course in science as a way to understand how research can be conducted.
He has elaborated on that point in a column at Online Journalism Review that identifies the need for standar procedures to gather, verify and describe.
"Today's journalism ethics are the ethics of a profession serving yesterday's information-starved communities," he writes. "Today, we need a journalistic method that serves communities seeking truth and relevance within the abundance of information surrounding them."
He suggests journalists develop their own version of scientific methods to improve their standards to move from a medium of information to a medium of the arbiter of information.
He has elaborated on that point in a column at Online Journalism Review that identifies the need for standar procedures to gather, verify and describe.
"Today's journalism ethics are the ethics of a profession serving yesterday's information-starved communities," he writes. "Today, we need a journalistic method that serves communities seeking truth and relevance within the abundance of information surrounding them."
He suggests journalists develop their own version of scientific methods to improve their standards to move from a medium of information to a medium of the arbiter of information.
