Ethics and media meet at Catholic university programs

On Catholic college campuses across the country, journalism students are still learning how to interview people and write the inverted pyramid news story that answers the who-what-when-where-why-and-how. Tomorrow’s journalists are also being trained in how to shoot and edit video, produce their

Contribute to the search for truth, pope says

When he speaks with reporters, Pope Francis often sounds like an old journalism professor reminding them to ask the right questions and to fact-check their stories. Addressing the Foreign Press Association of Italy on May 18, the Holy Father emphasized familiar themes

A breath of fresh air

  The last few weeks in the media have been like none I’ve ever seen before, and I’ve been in this industry for nearly 40 years. Yet, the fallout from the encounter at the Lincoln Memorial — between a Catholic high school

Guilt by association

There is no doubt that the racist tweet launched by actress-comedian Roseanne Barr against former top Obama aide Valerie Jarret deserved swift action by Barr’s superiors at ABC, where she had been raking in huge ratings with the reboot of her hit