Question

How can a journalist be sure to avoid conflicts of interest?

Answer 1

Journalists need to refuse gifts, favors, fees, free travel, special treatment, or anything else that might call their honesty into question. If a journalist is assigned a story that focuses on a business or community member with which they have a relationship with, that journalist needs to come clean and ask to be reassigned.

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Answer 2

Include preventing or eliminating situations, such as the following: any applicable member of the organization who owns or has a financial interest in a competing company where that individual might be influenced to make a business decision not in the best interest .