News Media Innovation Reconsidered Ethics and Values in a Creative Reconstruction of Journalism

A guide to journalistic ethics for today?s digital technologies

With contributions from an international panel of experts on the topic, News Media Innovation Reconsidered offers a guide for the revitalizing of the ethical and civil ideals of journalism. The authors discuss how to energize journalistic practices and products and explore how to harness the power of digital technological innovations such as immersive journalism, the automatization and personalization of news, newsgames, and artificial-intelligence news production.

The book presents an innovative framework of ?creative reconstruction? and reviews new journalistic concepts, models, initiatives, and practices that clearly demonstrate professional ethics that embrace truth seeking, transparency, fact checking, and accuracy, and other ethical considerations. While the contributors represent numerous countries, many of examples are drawn from the Spanish-speaking media and can serve as models for an international audience. This important book:

• Explores the impact on the news media from mobile-first, virtual reality, and artificial intelligence-driven platforms
• Examines the challenges of maintaining journalistic ethics in today?s digital world
• Demonstrates how to use technology to expose readers to news outside their comfort zones
• Provides information for discerning truth from fake news

Written for researchers, students in journalism and communication programs, New Media Innovation Reconsidered offers a much-needed guide for recreating journalistic ethics in our digital age.

Introduction: Journalism’s Creative Reconstruction: How Innovation in News Is Embracing Enduring Professional and Civil Values vii
María Luengo

Journalism, Ethics, and Innovation in Times of Digital Turbulence 1

1 An Inquiry into the Ethics of Innovation in Digital Journalism 3
José Alberto García-Avilés

2 Democratically Engaged Journalists: Ethical Invention amid Unreasonable Publics 20
Stephen J.A. Ward

3 Journalism Innovation in a Time of Survival 40
Alfred Hermida and Mary Lynn Young

News Ethics and Emerging Journalistic Narratives 53

4 Ethics in 360-Degree Immersive Journalism 55
María José Benítez de Gracia, Sara Pérez-Seijo, and Susana Herrera-Damas

5 Quo Vadis, Newsgames? Ethical Boundaries Between Journalism and Games 73
Salvador Gómez-García and Juan Martín-Quevedo

6 Guiding the Adoption of News Storytelling Design Through Ethics: The Use of Stories in Google’s AMP Project 92
Mariché Navío-Navarro and Laura González-Díez

Interrogating Data, Algorithms, and Automatization Through Journalism Ethics 105

7 Data Journalism, Massive Leaks, and Investigation: What the Panama PapersHave Taught Us About Ethics 107
Helena Cortés and María Luengo

8 Semi-automated Journalism: Reinforcing Ethics to Make the Most of Artificial Intelligence for Writing News 124
José Luis Rojas Torrijos

9 Ethical Challenges in Incorporating Artificial Intelligence into Newsrooms 138
Teresa Barceló-Ugarte, José Manuel Pérez-Tornero, and Pere Vila-Fumàs

Journalistic Innovation at the Service of the Public 155

10 Journalism, Algorithms, and the People’s Right to Know 157
Michaëla Cancela-Kieffer

11 Ethical Dilemmas in the Personalization of News from Voice Interfaces 174
Luis Miguel Pedrero-Esteban and Beatriz Gas-Gozalbo

12 Transparency, Innovation, and Journalism 187
Rogério Christofoletti

13 Innovative Tools for Citizen Empowerment in the Fight Against Misinformation 202
Óscar Espíritusanto and Inès Dinant

Conclusion 222
Susana Herrera-Damas

Index 228

María Luengo is Associate Professor of Journalism, Department of Communication, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain. Her work focuses on journalism and the civil sphere. Recent book publications include The Crisis of Journalism Reconsidered: Democratic Culture, Professional Codes, Digital Future (co-edited with Alexander and Breese, Cambridge University Press, 2016). Her research has appeared in European Journal of Communication, Media, Culture & Society, Journalism, and Journalism Studies, among others.

Susana Herrera is Associate Professor of Journalism, Department of Communication, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain. Her work focuses on innovation on digital media. Her research has appeared in Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, Journal of Applied Journalism & Media Studies, El profesional de la información and Communication & Society, among others.