SPJ: Phoenix, Arizona Chapter

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SPJ celebrations its annual Ethics Week April 27-May 1 with a pair of online panel discussions on the need for journalistic ethics and whether the Society’s venerable Code of Ethics should be revised. Also this week, the Society will present the inaugural Fred Brown Ethics in Journalism Award to some courageous college journalists.

Here’s the full schedule of events and how to sign up to view the discussions.

• At 4 p.m. Arizona time Tuesday, April 28, join SPJ Ethics Chair Dan Axelrod and a distinguished panel discuss “Blurred Lines: Should Journalists Be Defined and Regulated?”
• At 4 p.m. Arizona time Wednesday, April 29, Axelrod returns to moderate another panel to discuss “Why Revise the SPJ Code of Ethics Now, and What Should Be Improved?”
• This week, SPJ is presenting college journalists from Purdue University‘s The Exponent and Indiana University‘s Indiana Daily Student with the Fred Brown Ethics in Journalism Award, presented for the first time with the name of Brown, a former SPJ national president and champion of journalistic ethics, who died April 1. Read an SPJ statement detailing why the students were selected to receive this honor.