The Ethics for the New Investigative Newsroom report is a collaboration of three journalism centers: Center for Journalism Ethics, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Knight Chair in Investigative & Enterprise Reporting, University of Illinois; and Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism. It puts forward ethical principles and best practices. It outlines legal considerations and explores nonprofit journalism in Canada. The report warns that newsrooms must protect the integrity of their journalism. Only transparency about sponsorship, clear rules on conflicts of interest, and frank communication with supporters will maintain public confidence in these new experiments in journalism.

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Broadcast journalists, news producers and News Directors have a wide range of resources available to them in researching, developing and producing their news product, much of it disparately located in rolodexes, reference books and online web sites.  While it would be an impossible task to bring all of this together in one place, The Wisconsin Broadcasters Association Foundation Board of Directors felt it was possible to bring things unique and particular to Wisconsin together in one convenient location. The R. Perry Kidder Broadcast News Resource Center, funded through generous contributions from R. Perry Kidder, President and General Manager of WFRV-TV, Green Bay, is an effort to do that.

The Resource Center has four sections: Know the Law, On Wisconsin,  Tips from the Pros, and Address Book . The Know the Law and On Wisconsin Sections speak to matters that are peculiar to the State of Wisconsin: our Open Meetings, Open Records and Media Access laws and backgrounders on how our government institutions are structured and operate.  A real highlight here is Miss Pronouncer guide which provides phonetic and voiced pronunciations of place and personage names.  Tips from the Pros provides primers for broadcast journalists, producers and photographers; material you might be able to find in other scattered resources, but all brought together here and addressed to those in the particular field of broadcast journalism.  And Address Book is a collection of links to other sites, all of them useful to working broadcast journalists, producers, hosts, and anchors.

As with all of news coverage, we live in an ever-changing world. We realize that means the R. Perry Kidder Broadcast News Resource Center will have to be a always-continuing work-in-progress, with changes, corrections, and additions. We ask you, as a user of the News Resource Center, to give us feedback. Tell us what we have left out, what we need to change, and especially tell us if we have made any errors. And feel free to give us your constructive criticism on the layout, structure and useability of the Resource Center.

We hope that the R. Perry Kidder News Resource Center will become one of your main “go-to” web sites as you continue to report the news in Wisconsin.