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New study finds journalists score far lower in moral reasoning than they did 13 years ago
Link to study, Journalists Primed: How Professional Identity Affects Moral Decision Making :
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17512786.2019.1673202
Link to excerpted PsyPost article:
https://www.psypost.org/2019/11/new-study-finds-journalists-score-far-lower-in-moral-reasoning-than-they-did-13-years-ago-54929
New study finds journalists score far lower in moral reasoning than they did 13 years ago
By ERIC W. DOLAN
November 18, 2019
A new study published in Journalism Practice suggests that professional journalists are less morally developed than they used to be.
“For the last couple years, one of my main research interests has been the shifting nature of journalistic identity, like what makes up professionalism in the industry. Numerous studies by various researchers have shown that it’s kind of in flux,” said study author Patrick Ferrucci, an assistant professor at University of Colorado-Boulder.
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“It’s an experiment with only a relatively small amount of participants, all who self identify as digital journalists — so this could be different with a wider swath of journalists,” Ferrucci explained. A major question still remaining, he added, is whether moral development is lessening throughout society. “Because if that is true, our results might just represent all of society and have nothing do, per se, with journalism.”
“In an experiment of this kind, the results should be taken as a first step toward understanding what’s happening, not an absolute truth,” Ferrucci said.
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By ERIC W. DOLAN
November 18, 2019
A new study published in Journalism Practice suggests that professional journalists are less morally developed than they used to be.
“For the last couple years, one of my main research interests has been the shifting nature of journalistic identity, like what makes up professionalism in the industry. Numerous studies by various researchers have shown that it’s kind of in flux,” said study author Patrick Ferrucci, an assistant professor at University of Colorado-Boulder.
[...]
“It’s an experiment with only a relatively small amount of participants, all who self identify as digital journalists — so this could be different with a wider swath of journalists,” Ferrucci explained. A major question still remaining, he added, is whether moral development is lessening throughout society. “Because if that is true, our results might just represent all of society and have nothing do, per se, with journalism.”
“In an experiment of this kind, the results should be taken as a first step toward understanding what’s happening, not an absolute truth,” Ferrucci said.
[...]
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