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.

Lee Wilkins is Professor Emerita at the Missouri School of Journalism and Wayne State University.

Clifford G. Christians is Research Professor of Communications, Professor of Media Studies and Professor of Journalism Emeritus at the University of Illinois.

Introduction PART 1: FOUNDATIONS 1. A Philosophically Based Inquiry into the Nature of Communicating Humans 2. A Short History of Media Ethics in the United States 3. Essential Shared Values and 21st Century Journalism 4. Moral Development: A Psychological Approach to Understanding Moral Decision-Making 5. On the Unfortunate Divide Between Media Ethics and Media Law 6. The Search for Universals 7. Justice in Media Ethics PART II: PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE 8. Truth and Objectivity 9. Photojournalism Ethics: A 21st Century Primal Dance of Behavior, Technology, and Ideology 10. Why Diversity Is an Ethical Issue 11. The Ethics of Advocacy: Moral Reasoning in the Practice of Public Relations 12. The Ethics of Propaganda and the Propaganda of Ethics 13. Exploring Latin American Advertising Ethics: Legislation and Self-Regulation 14. Serious Moral Problems and Emerging Ethical Issues in China's Media 15. Perspectives on Pornography Demand Ethical Critique 16. Violence 17. The Eroding Boundaries Between News and Entertainment and What They Mean for Democratic Politics 18. What Can We Get Away With? The Ethics of Art and Entertainment in a Neoliberal World 19. Culture Is Normative PART 3: CONCRETE ISSUES 20. Justice as a Journalistic Value and Goal 21. Transparency in Journalism: Meanings, Merits, and Risks 22. Coercion, Consent, and the Struggle for Social Media 23. Digital Ethics in Autonomous Systems 24. Peace Journalism 25. Toward an Institution-Based Theory of Privacy PART 4: INSTITUTIONAL CONSIDERATIONS 26. Islamic Reform for Democracy and Global Peace 27. Buddhist Moral Ethics: Intend No Harm, Intend to Be of Benefit 28. Communitarianism 29. Feminist Media Ethics 30. Spatial Ethics and Freedom of Expression 31. Media Ownership in a Corporate Age 32. The Media in Evil Circumstances 33. Ethical Tensions in News Making: What Journalism Has in Common with Other Professions