부산대학교 도서관

This section presents news briefs on journalistic ethics in the U.S., as of September 2004. A top editor at a Virginia newspaper resigned in June after he altered previously published news stories for entry in a journalism awards competition. Lynchburg News & Advance Associate Managing Editor Bob Morgan admitted to altering several stories and submitting reworked electronic versions to the Virginia Press Association for award consideration. Managing Editor Joe Stinnett told the Post's Howard Kurtz that the paper apologized to the press association. He said that he was not sure of the total submissions that were changed. In response to inquiries into questionable practices by Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter, CondÉ Nast, the magazine's publisher, made its workers and readers aware of its code of conduct. Carter, who received a $100,000 finder's fee for his proposal that the book A Beautiful Mind be made into a movie, was not publicly named in the 16-page code of conduct titled What Governs Us. Meanwhile, Greg Fields resigned after he used incorrect information from a previous circus newsletter, the Circus Report he wrote about the wrong version of the circus performing in Macon.