The Spokesman-Review’s case is just one of hundreds of “9-1-1” calls for help that Steele and his ethics staff at Poynter field every year. From questions about conflicts of interest to whether or not to list the names of registered sex offenders, the Poynter ethics team has seen pleas for help — many of them just before deadline — increase dramatically in just the past few years. The high-profile Jayson Blair and Jack Kelley cases also sparked new ethics policy reviews at many papers.
Read Joe Strupp’s Editor and Publisher story here.