Lee Wilkins
Biographic Data
| ID | 4258153 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lee Wilkins |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lee |
| FAMILY NAME | Wilkins |
| SIGNATURE | WILKINS L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Missouri |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Routledge Handbook of Mass Media Ethics
"This fully updated second edition of the popular handbook provides an exploration of thinking on media ethics, bringing together the intellectual history of global mass media ethics over the past 40 years, summarising existing research and setting future agenda grounded in philosophy and social science. This second edition offers up-to-date and comprehensive coverage of media ethics, including source ethics, social media, the roots of law in eth…
Routledge Handbook of Mass Media Ethics
Routledge Handbook of Mass Media Ethics
Bad Tidings: Communication and Catastrophe
Media Ethics: Issues and Cases
Duties, Rights and Election-Night Pizza: Toward an agenda of “what journalists are owed”
Affirmative Duties: The institutional and individual capabilities required in disaster coverage
Most analysis of media coverage of disaster has a normative edge. This paper outlines a philosophical basis for establishing normative standards for news coverage of natural hazards and human-based risk. It begins with a top-down, or system-oriented, epistemological approach to disasters and risk. By employing this epistemology, a new professional standard of excellence, the journalist as mitigation watchdog, emerges. Focusing on mitigation promo…
Reporting Disaster on Deadline
Testing the Effect of Framing and Sourcing in Health News Stories
This study examines whether changing the way news stories report on health can induce shifts in readers' perceptions of problems of obesity, diabetes, immigrant health, and smoking. The authors manipulated two variables in a controlled experiment: the quality of sourcing-the number of sources and their expertise-and the framing-changing from an episodic, traditional frame to a thematic frame that incorporated information on context, risk factors,…
Journalism's Moral Sentiments: Negotiating between freedom and responsibility
Philosophers since Adam Smith and David Hume have theorized that emotions play a role in ethical decision making. The most recent findings in neuroscience suggest that moral action does not occur without a firm handshake with the emotions. This paper explores the connection between emotions, bounded rationality and professional ethical decision making, specifically journalistic negotiation between freedom and responsibility. Based on the findings…
Feature Review
The Wages of Synergy
In the current economic environment, message synergy may result in a perceptible manifestation of ownership's impact on media content. That influence raises ethical issues: journalistic independence and access to the media marketplace for a variety of messages. This project analyzes the “soft news” content of the two most popular morning television news shows, The Today Show and Good Morning America during November 2007 sweeps. The analysis demon…
Mass media framing of biotechnology news
In fast-changing scientific fields like biotechnology, new information and discoveries should influence the balance of risks and rewards and their associated media coverage. This study investigates how reporters interpret and report such information and, in turn, whether they frame the public debate about biotechnology. Mass media coverage of medical and agricultural biotechnology is compared over a 12-year period and in two different countries: …
Conflicted interests, contested terrain: Journalism ethics codes then and now
By analyzing ethics codes, a professional statement of what constitutes good work, this essay links codes to a theory of culture and history. It considers two early journalism ethics codes and assesses the latest New York Times code in the light of philosophical theory. The paper suggests that professional tensions outlined in Good Work are reified in the Times code—and that history and culture may be less supportive of a positive outcome of this…
Classic books revisited
Citation only. Full-text article is available only through licensed access provided by the publisher. Published in Journalism Studies, 4(4), 523-525. Members of the USF System may access the full-text of the article through the authenticated link provided below
Searching for the Ethical Journalist: An Exploratory Study of the Moral Development of News Workers
This study gathered preliminary baseline data on the moral development of journalists using the Defining Issues Test (DIT), an instrument based on Kohlberg's (1969) 6 stages. Results show that a sample of journalists scored 4th highest among professionals tested using the DIT. The journalists ranked behind seminarians/philosophers, medical students, and physicians but above dental students, nurses, graduate students, undergraduate college student…
An ethical risk communication protocol for science and mass communication
This paper explores the philosophical foundations of risk communication, develops a protocol for ethical risk communication to be used by scientists, journalists and public relations practitioners, and applies the protocol to two cases of risk communication. We argue that the goals of risk communication are firstly to do no harm, and secondly to promote a public dialogue about risk. After outlining the philosophical foundation for these goals, we…
Between facts and values: Print media coverage of the greenhouse effect, 1987-1990
Using as a baseline Herbert Gans' work on values in the news, this qualitative study of US print media coverage of the greenhouse effect between 1987 and 1990 asserts there are at least three additional values that help frame news of the greenhouse effect: progress, the institutionalization of knowledge, and innocence. These values replicate in some crucial ways the values of the scientific community doing research on the greenhouse effect. Howev…
Madison and Jefferson: The Making of a Friendship
The 50-year friendship between James Madison and Thomas Jefferson illustrates the development of an adult friendship. That friendship is also evocative of some of the leadership qualities the two men brought to the founding era. Madison and Jefferson became friends because each needed an intellectual compatriot in the political arena to replace a lost relationship. However, their initial relationship was more a mentor-student relationship rather …
Risky business: Covering slow‐onset hazards as rapidly developing news
The emerging field of risk communication has yet to thoroughly grapple with how the mass media report risk. Through a content analysis of five newspapers noted for their science reporting, newspaper coverage of four environmental hazards is compared to media coverage of more traditional risky events. In general, these slow‐to‐develop stories are reported in much the same way as more traditional disaster stories. News accounts emphasized an event …
Humankind, Nature and the New Journalism: A Return to the Mythopoeic
The new journalism - or preferably literary journalism - has been analysed from a number of perspectives, but little effort has been made to delineate the genre's epistemological roots. Traditional journalism emerged from the epistemological conclusions of the Greeks. However, literary journalism arose from the intellectual traditional of romanticism including a world view in which humankind was considered an inseparable part of nature, in which …
Shared Vulnerability: The Media and American Perceptions of the Bhopal Disaster
Illustrations Preface The Year of Bhopal The Scholarly Framework Bhopal in Black and White The Living Room Tragedy Patterns of Power The Public Perception What Price Connection? Shared Vulnerability Selected Bibliography Index
Risk Analysis and the Construction of News
Lee Wilkins, Philip Patterson; Risk Analysis and the Construction of News, Journal of Communication, Volume 37, Issue 3, 1 September 1987, Pages 80–92, htt
Leadership as Political Mentorship: The Example of Wayne Morse
Le concept de maturite politique a partir de la biographie de Wayne Morse, ancien senateur de L'Oregon, initiateur et leader du mouvement pour la paix au Vietnam a partir de 1964. Du mentor au leader
The New Community Journalism: A Political Economic Approach
Searching for the Ethical Journalist: An Exploratory Study of the Moral Development of News Workers
This study gathered preliminary baseline data on the moral development of journalists using the Defining Issues Test (DIT), an instrument based on Kohlberg's (1969) 6 stages. Results show that a sample of journalists scored 4th highest among professionals tested using the DIT. The journalists ranked behind seminarians/philosophers, medical students, and physicians but above dental students, nurses, graduate students, undergraduate college student…
Risky business: Covering slow‐onset hazards as rapidly developing news
The emerging field of risk communication has yet to thoroughly grapple with how the mass media report risk. Through a content analysis of five newspapers noted for their science reporting, newspaper coverage of four environmental hazards is compared to media coverage of more traditional risky events. In general, these slow‐to‐develop stories are reported in much the same way as more traditional disaster stories. News accounts emphasized an event …
Affirmative Duties: The institutional and individual capabilities required in disaster coverage
Most analysis of media coverage of disaster has a normative edge. This paper outlines a philosophical basis for establishing normative standards for news coverage of natural hazards and human-based risk. It begins with a top-down, or system-oriented, epistemological approach to disasters and risk. By employing this epistemology, a new professional standard of excellence, the journalist as mitigation watchdog, emerges. Focusing on mitigation promo…
Conflicted interests, contested terrain: Journalism ethics codes then and now
By analyzing ethics codes, a professional statement of what constitutes good work, this essay links codes to a theory of culture and history. It considers two early journalism ethics codes and assesses the latest New York Times code in the light of philosophical theory. The paper suggests that professional tensions outlined in Good Work are reified in the Times code—and that history and culture may be less supportive of a positive outcome of this…
The Wages of Synergy
In the current economic environment, message synergy may result in a perceptible manifestation of ownership's impact on media content. That influence raises ethical issues: journalistic independence and access to the media marketplace for a variety of messages. This project analyzes the “soft news” content of the two most popular morning television news shows, The Today Show and Good Morning America during November 2007 sweeps. The analysis demon…
Leadership as Political Mentorship: The Example of Wayne Morse
Le concept de maturite politique a partir de la biographie de Wayne Morse, ancien senateur de L'Oregon, initiateur et leader du mouvement pour la paix au Vietnam a partir de 1964. Du mentor au leader
The New Community Journalism: A Political Economic Approach
Leadership as Political Mentorship: The Example of Wayne Morse
Le concept de maturite politique a partir de la biographie de Wayne Morse, ancien senateur de L'Oregon, initiateur et leader du mouvement pour la paix au Vietnam a partir de 1964. Du mentor au leader
Risk Analysis and the Construction of News
Lee Wilkins, Philip Patterson; Risk Analysis and the Construction of News, Journal of Communication, Volume 37, Issue 3, 1 September 1987, Pages 80–92, htt
Humankind, Nature and the New Journalism: A Return to the Mythopoeic
The new journalism - or preferably literary journalism - has been analysed from a number of perspectives, but little effort has been made to delineate the genre's epistemological roots. Traditional journalism emerged from the epistemological conclusions of the Greeks. However, literary journalism arose from the intellectual traditional of romanticism including a world view in which humankind was considered an inseparable part of nature, in which …
Shared Vulnerability: The Media and American Perceptions of the Bhopal Disaster
Illustrations Preface The Year of Bhopal The Scholarly Framework Bhopal in Black and White The Living Room Tragedy Patterns of Power The Public Perception What Price Connection? Shared Vulnerability Selected Bibliography Index
Risky business: Covering slow‐onset hazards as rapidly developing news
The emerging field of risk communication has yet to thoroughly grapple with how the mass media report risk. Through a content analysis of five newspapers noted for their science reporting, newspaper coverage of four environmental hazards is compared to media coverage of more traditional risky events. In general, these slow‐to‐develop stories are reported in much the same way as more traditional disaster stories. News accounts emphasized an event …
Madison and Jefferson: The Making of a Friendship
The 50-year friendship between James Madison and Thomas Jefferson illustrates the development of an adult friendship. That friendship is also evocative of some of the leadership qualities the two men brought to the founding era. Madison and Jefferson became friends because each needed an intellectual compatriot in the political arena to replace a lost relationship. However, their initial relationship was more a mentor-student relationship rather …
Between facts and values: Print media coverage of the greenhouse effect, 1987-1990
Using as a baseline Herbert Gans' work on values in the news, this qualitative study of US print media coverage of the greenhouse effect between 1987 and 1990 asserts there are at least three additional values that help frame news of the greenhouse effect: progress, the institutionalization of knowledge, and innocence. These values replicate in some crucial ways the values of the scientific community doing research on the greenhouse effect. Howev…
An ethical risk communication protocol for science and mass communication
This paper explores the philosophical foundations of risk communication, develops a protocol for ethical risk communication to be used by scientists, journalists and public relations practitioners, and applies the protocol to two cases of risk communication. We argue that the goals of risk communication are firstly to do no harm, and secondly to promote a public dialogue about risk. After outlining the philosophical foundation for these goals, we…
Searching for the Ethical Journalist: An Exploratory Study of the Moral Development of News Workers
This study gathered preliminary baseline data on the moral development of journalists using the Defining Issues Test (DIT), an instrument based on Kohlberg's (1969) 6 stages. Results show that a sample of journalists scored 4th highest among professionals tested using the DIT. The journalists ranked behind seminarians/philosophers, medical students, and physicians but above dental students, nurses, graduate students, undergraduate college student…
Classic books revisited
Citation only. Full-text article is available only through licensed access provided by the publisher. Published in Journalism Studies, 4(4), 523-525. Members of the USF System may access the full-text of the article through the authenticated link provided below
Conflicted interests, contested terrain: Journalism ethics codes then and now
By analyzing ethics codes, a professional statement of what constitutes good work, this essay links codes to a theory of culture and history. It considers two early journalism ethics codes and assesses the latest New York Times code in the light of philosophical theory. The paper suggests that professional tensions outlined in Good Work are reified in the Times code—and that history and culture may be less supportive of a positive outcome of this…
Mass media framing of biotechnology news
In fast-changing scientific fields like biotechnology, new information and discoveries should influence the balance of risks and rewards and their associated media coverage. This study investigates how reporters interpret and report such information and, in turn, whether they frame the public debate about biotechnology. Mass media coverage of medical and agricultural biotechnology is compared over a 12-year period and in two different countries: …
Feature Review
The Wages of Synergy
In the current economic environment, message synergy may result in a perceptible manifestation of ownership's impact on media content. That influence raises ethical issues: journalistic independence and access to the media marketplace for a variety of messages. This project analyzes the “soft news” content of the two most popular morning television news shows, The Today Show and Good Morning America during November 2007 sweeps. The analysis demon…
Testing the Effect of Framing and Sourcing in Health News Stories
This study examines whether changing the way news stories report on health can induce shifts in readers' perceptions of problems of obesity, diabetes, immigrant health, and smoking. The authors manipulated two variables in a controlled experiment: the quality of sourcing-the number of sources and their expertise-and the framing-changing from an episodic, traditional frame to a thematic frame that incorporated information on context, risk factors,…
Journalism's Moral Sentiments: Negotiating between freedom and responsibility
Philosophers since Adam Smith and David Hume have theorized that emotions play a role in ethical decision making. The most recent findings in neuroscience suggest that moral action does not occur without a firm handshake with the emotions. This paper explores the connection between emotions, bounded rationality and professional ethical decision making, specifically journalistic negotiation between freedom and responsibility. Based on the findings…
Reporting Disaster on Deadline
Affirmative Duties: The institutional and individual capabilities required in disaster coverage
Most analysis of media coverage of disaster has a normative edge. This paper outlines a philosophical basis for establishing normative standards for news coverage of natural hazards and human-based risk. It begins with a top-down, or system-oriented, epistemological approach to disasters and risk. By employing this epistemology, a new professional standard of excellence, the journalist as mitigation watchdog, emerges. Focusing on mitigation promo…
Duties, Rights and Election-Night Pizza: Toward an agenda of “what journalists are owed”
Bad Tidings: Communication and Catastrophe
Media Ethics: Issues and Cases
The Routledge Handbook of Mass Media Ethics
"This fully updated second edition of the popular handbook provides an exploration of thinking on media ethics, bringing together the intellectual history of global mass media ethics over the past 40 years, summarising existing research and setting future agenda grounded in philosophy and social science. This second edition offers up-to-date and comprehensive coverage of media ethics, including source ethics, social media, the roots of law in eth…
Routledge Handbook of Mass Media Ethics
Routledge Handbook of Mass Media Ethics
Sociology (18 works) · Political science (15 works) · Media studies (13 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Media Studies and Communication (8 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Social science (8 works) · Public relations (7 works)