Stephen J. A. Ward is Emeritus Professor and Distinguished Lecturer of Ethics at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. He has written ten books on media ethics, including the award-winning The Invention of Journalism Ethics: The Path to Objectivity and Beyond (2004). He is founding director of the Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin, and he helped to found the UBC School of Journalism.
Introduction. Media ethics in a global age
1. Doing media ethics
2. Reconstructing media ethics
3. Media, engagement, and democracy
4. Truth, objectivity, and fake news
5. Media harm
6. Media and extremism
7. Citizens, media, and macro-resistance
8. Global media ethics.