A Study on Malaysian perception in Journalism ethics

• Main Authors: Poi-Mun Cheng, 鄭佩雯
• Other Authors: Ching-Pu Chen
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/12572236362346008172

碩士 === 元智大學 === 社會暨政策科學學系 === 103 === Journalism ethics had been noticed and discussed by America recently, but in Asia countries there are limited sources for journalism ethics. The purpose of this paper is tried to focus on Asia’s country Malaysia, to test the perceptions of media educator, media students and journalists. Meanwhile, researcher will used Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) four concept like “Telling the truth”, “Minimize harm”, “Act independently”, “To be accountable and transparent” to list out the questionnaires. Therefore, Malaysia media had been limited by law, it’s hard to talk about Journalism Ethic. The purpose of this paper is try to figured it out the perception of journalism ethics between the three groups and total of 305 respondents already for data analysis. After the statistics analysis, to explore the answer, researcher also done in-depth interview with three different audiences, included 1 media educator, 4 media students and 7 journalists to get how much they cognitive in journalism ethics.The quantitative result found, media educator and media students don’t have the same cognitive in journalism ethics, but media students and journalists have the same cognitive in journalism ethics. After the in-depth interview with three group people, found media educator, media students and journalists think highly of journalism ethics. Meanwhile, is too hard fot Malaysia media to follow the principle in journalism ethics, just because Malaysia’s media had been limited by law.