Abstract
During the 1950s and 1960s, members of the American Society of Newspaper Editors debated and ultimately abandoned the longstanding practice of allowing features syndicates, which sold content to newspapers, to wine and dine them during their annual convention. By 1968, when the ASNE board banned the “syndicate parties,” many journalists had recalibrated their own ethical standards on conflicts of interest, holding themselves to the same standards as government officials and other news subjects. The contrast between ASNE members' positions on this issue over a ten-year period affirms an evolution in journalistic norms. For this change to take hold, and for the profession to support more detailed ethics codes, journalists had to develop a deeper common-sense understanding of their own accountability to the public.
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