The Media Drop

Jennifer Vestal writes in UNC-Charlotte’s University Times that the school will be offering a new course come the Spring 2005 semester - Journalism ethics. Now it’s not as if journalism students haven’t been learning about ethical behavior up to this point, but with such a focus and keen eye on the media right now, “it is about time we devoted a class to it,” says Cheryl Spainhour, journalism professor at the school.