Deni Elliott
Sources & Sorcery: Creating Journalism
in the 21st Century
Tuesday, February 20, 2007
7 p.m. HUB Auditorium
Deni Elliott is a professor and Poynter Jamison Chair in Media Ethics at the University of South Florida, St. Petersburg. Specializing in practical ethics, she has written The Kindness of Strangers, Philanthropy in Higher Education and Ethics in the First Person, A Guide to Teaching and Learning Practical Ethics.
Forthcoming books include An Involuntary Adventure, which documents her experience with breast cancer and the questions it raises for ethical medical practice and On The Edge, an irreverent look at unusual animal-human relationships. Dr. Elliott also works as the Ethics Officer for the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California. She received an undergraduate degree in communication with a minor in journalism from the University of Maryland, a M.A. in philosophy from Wayne State University and an interdisciplinary doctoral degree with a focus in teaching ethics from Harvard University.
Suggested Readings
The Accidental Cyber Journalist, by Barb Palsar
Why do so few j-school students plan to go into online news?
When Kids Are Dead Different Rules Apply, by Jeff Flesishman
A Rape Victim is Identified, by Alissa Wisnouse
Arthur Ashe: Can A Celebrity Keep His Illness A Secret, by Jaime Fettrow
Emerging Alternatives: A Brief History of Weblogs, by Mallory Jensen
The growing power of Weblogs
Blogging Between the Lines, by Dana Hull
Mainstream media and blogs
Online Journalist Face New Ethical Dilemmas, by Mark Deuze and Daphna Yeshua
Blogging, Ethics, and Public Relations, by Peter Smudde
Internet Privacy Practices of News Media and Implications for Online Journalism, by Traci Hong et al