Journalism ethics should go global not local

The Sydney Morning Herald published an op-ed by UBC ethics professor Stephen J.A. Ward.

Ward advocated for journalists working as global communicators rather than only framing stories from their one perspective.

“We need to construct global journalism ethics that transcends parochialism in two ways. First, we use global values to restrain the worst forms of parochialism. Second, we replace parochialism with globalism as the norm. Globalism makes global values primary,” he wrote.