A Bloggers’ Code of Ethics

April 15, 2003 · · 232 Comments

Some bloggers recently have been debating what, if any, ethics the Weblog community should follow. Since not all bloggers are journalists and the Weblog form is more casual, they argue they shouldn’t be expected to follow the same ethics codes journalists are. But responsible bloggers should recognize that they are publishing words publicly, and therefore have certain ethical obligations to their readers, the people they write about, and society in general. To that end, CyberJournalist.net has created a model Bloggers’ Code of Ethics.


Some bloggers recently have been debating what, if any, ethics the Weblog community should follow. Since not all bloggers are journalists and the Weblog form is more casual, they argue they shouldn’t be expected to follow the same ethics codes journalists are. But responsible bloggers should recognize that they are publishing words publicly, and therefore have certain ethical obligations to their readers, the people they write about, and society in general.

CyberJournalist.net has created a model Bloggers’ Code of Ethics, by modifying the Society of Professional Journalists Code of Ethics for the Weblog world. These are just guidelines — in the end it is up to individual bloggers to choose their own best practices. CyberJournalist.net follows this code and urges other Weblogs to adopt this one or similar practices.

Integrity is the cornerstone of credibility. Bloggers who adopt this code of principles and these standards of practice not only practice ethical publishing, but convey to their readers that they can be trusted.


A BLOGGERS’ CODE OF ETHICS

Be Honest and Fair
Bloggers should be honest and fair in gathering, reporting and interpreting information.
Bloggers should:
• Never plagiarize.
• Identify and link to sources whenever feasible. The public is entitled to as much information as possible on sources’ reliability.
• Make certain that Weblog entries, quotations, headlines, photos and all other content do not misrepresent. They should not oversimplify or highlight incidents out of context.
• Never distort the content of photos without disclosing what has been changed. Image enhancement is only acceptable for for technical clarity. Label montages and photo illustrations.
• Never publish information they know is inaccurate — and if publishing questionable information, make it clear it’s in doubt.
• Distinguish between advocacy, commentary and factual information. Even advocacy writing and commentary should not misrepresent fact or context.
• Distinguish factual information and commentary from advertising and shun hybrids that blur the lines between the two.

Minimize Harm
Ethical bloggers treat sources and subjects as human beings deserving of respect.
Bloggers should:
• Show compassion for those who may be affected adversely by Weblog content. Use special sensitivity when dealing with children and inexperienced sources or subjects.
• Be sensitive when seeking or using interviews or photographs of those affected by tragedy or grief.
• Recognize that gathering and reporting information may cause harm or discomfort. Pursuit of information is not a license for arrogance.
• Recognize that private people have a greater right to control information about themselves than do public officials and others who seek power, influence or attention. Only an overriding public need can justify intrusion into anyone’s privacy.
• Show good taste. Avoid pandering to lurid curiosity.
Be cautious about identifying juvenile suspects, victims of sex crimes and criminal suspects before the formal filing of charges.

Be Accountable
Bloggers should:
• Admit mistakes and correct them promptly.
• Explain each Weblog’s mission and invite dialogue with the public over its content and the bloggers’ conduct.
• Disclose conflicts of interest, affiliations, activities and personal agendas.
• Deny favored treatment to advertisers and special interests and resist their pressure to influence content. When exceptions are made, disclose them fully to readers.
• Be wary of sources offering information for favors. When accepting such information, disclose the favors.
• Expose unethical practices of other bloggers.
• Abide by the same high standards to which they hold others.

What do you think? Is there anything you think should be added, changed or removed? Post your comments below.

Comments

232 Responses to “A Bloggers’ Code of Ethics”

  1. Guy H. on April 27th, 2003 3:19 pm

    Hey, make this in a print friendly format…..PLEASE.

  2. rebecca blood on May 10th, 2003 5:03 pm

    In The Weblog Handbook http://www.rebeccablood.net/handbook/index.html I propose a weblog code of ethics, which is excerpted on the Web here: rebeccablood.net/handbook/excerpts/weblog_ethics.html

    In my book I argue at length that weblogs are not a new form of journalism, and shouldn’t aspire to be so–I think we’re stronger (and more important and more interesting) as something different, and trying to fit us into a pre-existing mold, to my mind, misses the point.

    For that reason, in thinking about ethics for weblogging, I discarded the journalistic standard of accuracy and fairness. That’s unrealistic, and not really in the spirit of what we’re doing. The standard I arrived at was transparency, and I derived each of guideline from that principle.

  3. patricia abbatoy on June 14th, 2004 2:38 am

    I’m relatively new to the field of journalism, so forgive me if the question seems ignorant…Why is there an unwritten rule that one newspaper cannot mention another newspaper in a story, even if it involved a reporter being targeted for harassment or injured? I just don’t get it.

  4. Amardeep Singh on June 17th, 2004 9:09 am

    I’m not convinced that a code of ethics will help a lot.

    Some bloggers blog to participate in an internet community; for them these rules apply (indeed, most major bloggers are quite scrupulous in giving credit where credit is due).

    But some blogs are there just for the notoriety and fame. They will say anything if it draws traffic/excitement. Ethics don’t apply if there is ‘dish’ in the offing (I think Wonkette’s false Kerry sex-scandal rumor-mongering falls into this category)

    At most I see your list as ‘Blogger’s Etiquette’. Most readers can decide for themselves whether a blogger is reliable or not, and whether it matters. Many blogs are intentionally biased or slanted in one way or another; it’s the constituency of a blog that decides whether the writer passes a reliability test.

    The biggest advice I have for any aspiring bloggers out there is: watch what you say. Not because the government is out to get you, though that may be true. Actually, it’s because eventually your mom will read your blog!

  5. James A. Warholic on July 24th, 2004 9:58 pm

    Blog Ethics

    I believe there is another component of weblogs related to ethics that is being overlooked. While the ?Bloggers’ Code of Ethics? is excellent, there are other potential ramifications from an ethical, legal, and libel perspective that should not be overlooked. See: http://pwebs.net/marketing/ethics/articles/internetethics.htm ?The Importance Of Ethics On The Internet.? In this article I go over the various aspects of publishing responsibilities mainly from a B2B and B2C website point of view.

    While most find blogs fun and a large number of these are personal and of a commentary nature, nevertheless, what is written on a blog website can result in the same legal consequences of any other type of falsely written print or video media. It is very important to follow the Code of Ethics.

    Tell it Like it is - But do it with Style! Just like any other type of journalism, it is very important to check and verify your sources if you have something to say that could potentially hurt or bring harm to an organization or an individual.

    jimwarholic@pwebs.net

  6. sTEVEN sTREIGHT: Vaspers the Grate blogger on September 16th, 2004 8:31 pm

    Here are two more nice blog ethics rules, that are rarely subscribed to:

    “I will never ban a person, or delete a comment from my blog, merely because I disagree with the person, or feel the comment is too aggressive in its advocacy of a different point of view.”

    “If I feel I must consider banning a person from my blog site, I will always warn and attempt to contact the person prior to blocking their ability to view, or comment on, my blog.”

  7. The One True b!X on December 2nd, 2004 1:43 pm

    Portland Communique’s about page suggests aiming for two sets of principles, at least for weblogs trying to do journalism. One is the previously-mentioned weblog ethics from Rebecca Blood, and the other is the list of none elements of journalism from Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel.

  8. The One True b!X on December 2nd, 2004 1:45 pm

    Ah, it took out the links. Sigh.

    PC’s about page:
    http://communique.portland.or.us/about.html

    Nine elements of journalism:
    http://www.journalism.org/resources/guidelines/principles/purpose.asp

  9. Tamora on December 2nd, 2004 4:11 pm

    I think that that is totally corect. Every bit of it.

  10. Rochelle on December 9th, 2004 8:50 pm

    I realize people have been using blogs as a format for grassroots journalism, but your list is more related to that than to bloggers generally. I’m not sure that it’s particularly responsible to usurp the term as you have. You have issues with journalistic arrogance, but apparently none when it comes to arrogantly co-opting a genre and format that has been around for a while as a form of personal communication.

    Someone above suggested that you add not banning people to your list. Let’s just keep in mind that a blog is not a public space, but is in fact a personal forum.

  11. Rooty on December 17th, 2004 8:42 am

    What did you use as your foundation for this so-called ethics code for bloggers? Reading this, it looks like nothing more than your own personal opinion. What right do you have to foist any of this on anyone?

    Let’s take your last point, shall we, to “abide by the same high standards to which you hold others.” You also note that the “pursuit of information is not a license for arrogance.” I find both of these statements more than a little hypocrtical given the rest of your list. Do you think that what you are doing here recognizes the right of people to control their own private information? Who gives you the right to discolse so-called unethical practices of other bloggers, and how are you using the term unethical? Is it anyone who does not adhere to your made up list of rules? Just who the hell do you guys think you are, posting stuff like this as the final word on principles and integrity, as though those who follow you are better than those who recognize that you are full of garbage?

    If I want to pander to people’s curiosity, then I have the right to do so. There’s no law in any country that says I can’t. Image enhancement is only acceptable for technical clarity? Grow up! It can also be done for good fun.

    Worst of all, you have not even identified any reasonable way in which a stupid list like this could possibly be enforced.

  12. Tom Armstrong on January 1st, 2005 6:04 pm

    I very much like your Bloggers’ Code of Ethics, and much prefer it to Rebecca Blood’s code and B!X’s Blood-based code.

    My biggest problem with Rebecca’s laudable effort is item four: “Write each entry as if it could not be changed; add to, but do not rewrite or delete, any entry.” While it is true that with a standard blog accepting comments you shouldn’t mess with the flow of ‘conversation,’ other formats are more like little magazines, or don’t encourage long, threaded commentary. If there are errors or corrections or updates to an original entry, then they should be fixed/made. This is the great advantage over the hardcopy format: there is no ‘final’ draft!

    If Ann in Blog X uses an entry of Bob’s in Blog Y, she should provide an adequate blockquote in her blog. And if hers is a long analyis of Bob’s long paper, she should keep a copy of Bob’s paper to update/adjust her entry if Bob’s paper should ever be significantly modified or should disappear from the Internet.

    We must get used to the idea that the Internet frees us from the stone-tablet universe of old fashioned newspapers and magazines. THIS is the greatest single thing about it.

    Tom Armstrong … http://www.zenunbound.com

  13. Tom on January 1st, 2005 6:04 pm

    I very much like your Bloggers’ Code of Ethics, and much prefer it to Rebecca Blood’s code and B!X’s Blood-based code.

    My biggest problem with Rebecca’s laudable effort is item four: “Write each entry as if it could not be changed; add to, but do not rewrite or delete, any entry.” While it is true that with a standard blog accepting comments you shouldn’t mess with the flow of ‘conversation,’ other formats are more like little magazines, or don’t encourage long, threaded commentary. If there are errors or corrections or updates to an original entry, then they should be fixed/made. This is the great advantage over the hardcopy format: there is no ‘final’ draft!

    If Ann in Blog X uses an entry of Bob’s in Blog Y, she should provide an adequate blockquote in her blog. And if hers is a long analyis of Bob’s long paper, she should keep a copy of Bob’s paper to update/adjust her entry if Bob’s paper should ever be significantly modified or should disappear from the Internet.

    We must get used to the idea that the Internet frees us from the stone-tablet universe of old fashioned newspapers and magazines. THIS is the greatest single thing about it.

    Tom Armstrong … http://www.zenunbound.com

  14. journoz: updates for Australian journalists on January 4th, 2005 3:29 pm

    Do the right thing

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  15. gillianic tendencies on January 5th, 2005 11:36 am

    Blogging vs. Journalism

    In the years ahead, I expect to see some solo bloggers get in trouble — and some get driven to personal ruin when they lose libel lawsuits. It’s a wonder it hasn’t happened yet. Steve Outing, Senior Editor, Poynter Institute This is from Pointeronline…

  16. matt at lightwind on January 6th, 2005 6:19 am

    where’d all of the links go?

    Not that most of you would ever notice, but I removed the “links” category this afternoon. All of the posts that were solely in that category still exist, but they have been moved to more appropriate categories. Why did I…

  17. miss-information.net on January 8th, 2005 7:11 am

    Pour ou contre une Charte des droits des bloggueurs?

    J’ai, depuis hier, une discussion passionnante sur la pertinence - ou non - d’une charte de droits pour les bloggueurs.

  18. EVALS TEN on January 8th, 2005 7:41 am

    Blogger?????

    ????? A Bloggers’ Code of Ethics, CyberJournalist.net, 2003/4/15 ????blogger???????????CyberJournalist.net??? responsible bloggers should recognize that they are publishing words publicly, and therefore hav…

  19. Anthony E. Cameron on January 13th, 2005 7:49 am

    Your basic premis for ethics is sound, But.
    Individuales will follow their nature. From the ten comandments to City Ordinances have been attemps to regulate what a few would deem to be ‘THE’ right behavior. Also, attemps to control stupidity, which hasn’t worked.
    I think the best you can ask for with any hope of commpliance is “Do no harm” and write as if your Mom was reading your E-mail.

  20. Steve on January 13th, 2005 10:37 am

    A code of ethics is unncessary. The only code of ethics that we should follow is the law. Otherwise, let the public decide which blogs get respect, by virtue of traffic levels.

    Codes of Ethics are usually created when snobby people are pissed off about something and are too weak to compete on a level playing field.

  21. rosie's randoms on January 15th, 2005 12:42 pm

    You mean we have to act like grownups here too?

    The Poynter Institute, a school for journalists, future journalists, and teachers of journalists, publishes several online columns each day, the most popular of which has got to be Jim Romenesko’s Romenesko , a combination of journalism watchdog and gossi

  22. CyberJournalist.net on January 25th, 2005 9:02 am

    Roll Your Own Ethics

    In a paper prepared for the “Blogging, Journalism and Credibility: Battleground and Common Ground” conference at Harvard, the Poynter Institute’s Bill Mitchell and Bob Steele propose that individual bloggers’ craft their own ethics guidelines. “The ide…

  23. eCuaderno v.2.0 on February 8th, 2005 1:26 am

    ??tica blogger? Pues va a ser que s?

    En el sugerente post Blogs como herramientas de marketing, Enrique Dans se plantea en qu? medida puede verse comprometido el poder de prescripci?n de un blogger ante la eventual existencia de contraprestaciones econ?micas reveladas u ocultas que pudier…

  24. Hans on Experience on February 21st, 2005 7:54 am

    Ethische code voor weblog

    Weblogg-ed heeft een posting over Bloggerscode of ethics naar aanleiding van een artikel in Online Journalism Review. Cyberjournalist.net heeft ook een aantal principes op een rijtje gezet: - Be Honest and Fair - Be Accountable - Minimize Harm Overigen…

  25. Scattered Words on February 21st, 2005 11:17 pm

    Political tabloids and liberal hysteria

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  26. :: daily ramblings :: on February 27th, 2005 11:01 am

    Standing up to the tabloid bloggers

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  27. Poppy McCool on February 28th, 2005 1:39 pm

    Disclose conflicts of interest, affiliations, activities and personal agendas.

    This doesn’t work with anonymous blogs.

    Also, not all blogs are journalistic in nature. Some are photo blogs, fiction blogs, etc. Gererlizing these as “Bloggers” code of ethics is kind of wrong. It should be more specific.

  28. Bibi's box on February 28th, 2005 3:13 pm

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  29. The 13th Colony on February 28th, 2005 3:20 pm

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  31. tiffany on March 1st, 2005 8:25 am

    I question the need for a code of ethics. The blogosphere will typically “fact-check your a**” if needed. Bad info and continued lies calls your credibility into doubt, which makes your blog a lot less worth reading. Sort of a self-correcting phenomenon.

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  35. May It Please The Court on March 4th, 2005 11:19 am

    The Rally Cry? Don’t Clog My Blog.

    In the long run, does mainstream media have any more credibility than blogs, or is it that we’re both making the same mistakes?

    Here’s the message to mainstream media: Don’t clog my blog.

    But the message to blogs, too, is that we need to watc…

  36. David M. Chess on March 6th, 2005 1:38 pm

    Virtually all of this says “don’t lie or be mean”, and that seems plausible.

    I think “Explain each Weblog’s mission and invite dialogue with the public over its content and the bloggers’ conduct” should simply be deleted. Many weblogs are strictly personal sites, just someone ranting about whatever they feel like ranting about, and there’s no ethical or moral or otherwise requirement for every one to have a coherent mission, or to explain it, or to invite dialogue about it.

  37. Whom Gods Destroy on March 9th, 2005 10:34 pm

    Contradicting Terms?

    Every industry today seems to want to appear to be operating under a ‘Code of Ethics’, which is warm-and-fuzzy speak…

  38. Bill on May 2nd, 2005 11:03 am

    Geek

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    A Blogging Code of Ethics?

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  43. sarathkannur on May 11th, 2005 3:17 am

    Code of ethics, the stiffling restrictions imposed by the controllers to see to that nobody strayed too far from established thoughts and ideas.

    Have you really tried to say exactly what you wanted ,in so many words, without somehow having to check whether it crossed the line and then hastily rewrote everything so that eventually what you wanted to say was never said the way you wanted it.

  44. jw on June 3rd, 2005 9:18 am

    Get a life

  45. Rae27 on June 16th, 2005 1:52 pm

    I agree with the ethics code unless you just have your friends look at it then it’s alright. I used to have a blog but got tired of keeping up with it lol. Call it lazy or just plain being tired of remembering what you wanted to type.

    Rae :)

  46. secretdubai on September 22nd, 2005 11:53 am

    Excellent guidelines. Bloggers should bear in mind that proper linking and attribution is also a means of protection for them, though never a complete one. Repeating someone else’s libel is still libel, even if innocently done.

  47. EVALS TEN on October 18th, 2005 12:06 pm

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    responsible bloggers should recognize that they are publishing words publicly, and therefore have

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  50. tealeaf on November 2nd, 2005 12:20 pm

    I’m curious about right to privacy issues. I’ve a friend who writes a popular blog that I enjoy reading. She posts various local news items and information about local neighborhood activities as well as an entertaining interior monologue style commentary about her day. However, in these commentaries she has, on occasion, posted some information about well known people, actors, authors and others who happen to live in our neighborhood. She has described rather specifically the location of their homes, where they hang out, and what their children look like, all in a kind of easy going essay style about her day. I think it’s done quite innocently, if naively. She seems absolutely unaware and unconcerned that many people consider this an infringement on these people’s boundaries. Could she at some point be facing some kind of legal action? She’s naming these people - first and last names - describing their kids and where they live, without their consent. I guess the gossip magazines do this all the time, but isn’t that part of the reason tabloid journalists are frequently sued?

  51. Ron Scott on November 13th, 2005 3:05 pm

    This discussion of “blog ethics” is laughable because it’s predicated on the notion that journalists abide by a higher code of ethics. In the 60’s journalism shifted from the reporting of raw news - providing readers with the facts so they could make informed decisions - to “interpretive journalism” - a steady diet of skewed news stories written to promote the writer’s particular point of view. Of late, writers have been carrying the water for their political counterparts, beating a drum declaring Bush to be a liar, yet those same people when they quote Ted Kennedy don’t remind people of Chappaquiddick with an apositive after his name like “long remembered as the felon who got away”.

    Bottom Line. A code of ethics would only lead the uniformed to give more credence to the entries than they deserve. Let Joe Lunchbucket interpret the merit or demerit of blog comments himself.

  52. Sacrificial Rabbit on November 15th, 2005 12:43 pm

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    This is going to be a bit of a retrospective here. I will talk a little bit about why I blog, and what I blog, and compare it to a previous entry I made year and a half ago. It will be interesting to see what has changed and what has stayed the same.

  53. Paul Walsh on January 11th, 2007 5:37 am

    Ok, this is a late one… we’re looking at a code of conduct for blogs for http://contentlabel.org - perhaps this is in fact, a great starting point - or finish if it has everything that people want.

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