Abstract
Journalists have long been expected to rely on external moral guidance such as institutional norms and principles typified in codes of ethics. These prevailing external methods—called “external” because they are imposed on agents rather than psychologically internalized within the agent—have left many journalists confused in terms of specific application of norms, rules and principles in practice, which in turn has left the public wanting higher ethical standards and more consistent (good) behavior. This chapter will detail a classically under-regarded internal view of professionalism that utilizes an internalized moral psychology for journalists based on virtue ethics.
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Quinn, A. (2018). Moral Psychology for Professional Journalists. In: Virtue Ethics and Professional Journalism . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01428-5_5
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