Aspectos éticos y deontológicos de la actividad periodística online. Su percepción por los profesionales

Juan Carlos  Suárez Villegas

doi:10.4185/RLCS-2015-1036

Authors

Juan Carlos Suárez Villegas University of Sevilla http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2199-7028

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4185/RLCS-2015-1036

Keywords:

Ethics, deontology, journalism, digital journalism, self-regulation, social function, freedom, pluralism, independence, transparency, citizen journalism

Abstract

Digital journalists from three countries (Belgium, Spain and Italy)argue that the ethical exercise of journalism depends on the personal and professional values of journalists as well as on external factors (of commercial, economic, political and technological nature). Journalism ethics is, thus, influenced by the working conditions as well as the technology used to carry out the professional activity. However, the degree of independence of the media companies where journalists work, and their personal values are perceived as the most influential factors in the ethical practice of journalism, while the influence of the interaction with the public and its opinions are considered as secondary.

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Author Biography

Juan Carlos Suárez Villegas, University of Sevilla

Professor of media ethics and deontology at the School of Communication of the University of Seville. Leader of several R&D projects: two national (in 2006 and 2011, respectively), two European and some regional projects. Author of 12 monographs and more than 30 articles published by scientific journals.

Member of the Commission for Complaints, Arbitration and Deontology of the Federation of Press Associations of Spain (FAPE). Visiting researcher at several European and Latin American universities (Oxford University, the University of Bologna, the Sapienza University of Rome, the Autonomous University of Mexico State.

Member of several international research centres, scientific journals and evaluator of agency projects and quality of the University of Spain and Italy. Director of four international conferences, on media ethics (2011, 2013) and communication and gender (2012 and 2014).

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