Introduction: Wendy Wyatt, University of St. Thomas Part I: Spheres of influence: fostering (or not) ethical journalism 1: The ethical newsroom: Where the individual and the collective work together Tony Harcup, University of Sheffield 2: My newsroom made me do it: The impact of organisational climate on ethical decision making Lee Wilkins, University of Missouri 3: How press ombudsmen help create ethical and responsible news organisations Carlos Macia-Barber, University of Madrid 4: The media and democracy: Using democratic theory in media ethics David S. Allen, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Elizabeth Blanks Hindman, Washington State University 5: Do professionalism and ethics reduce pressure for legal accountability? Robert Drechsel, University of Wisconsin-Madison 6: The ecology of journalism ethics: Theory and Cases David Pritchard, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Bastiaan Vanacker, Loyola University Chicago Mireya Marquez, Universidad Iberoamericana and Dejan Jontes, University of Ljubljana Part II: Intersections: theory and practise 7: How do ethics and journalistic standards differ? Karen Slattery, Marquette University 8: Does the language of journalism's earliest ethics codes still speak to us today? Thomas H. Bivins, University of Oregon Part III: Emerging issues in a global, digital age 9: Can the ethics of the 'Fourth Estate' persevere in a global age? Ejvind Hansen, Danish School of Media and Journalism 10: Knowledge-cantered newswork as an ethical framework for the online era Jan Lauren Boyles, American University Yael de Haan & Annemarie Landman, University of Applied Science Utrecht 11: Ethics in the age of the solitary journalist Wendy N. Wyatt and Tom Clasen, St. Thomas University Bibliography, Author Biographies, Acknowledgements