28.03.2023
In their publication "All the news that is fit to print? Reporting on a victim'scharacter during a crisis", Daniel Laufer, Sabine Einwiller and Ariadne Neureiter show how reporting of irrelevant information on a crisis victim's bad character impacts on empathy towards the victim, the victim's reputation as well as the reputation of the news medium that published the information. The findings of the experimental study show that when journalists violate the code of ethics by reporting irrelevant negative information on the character of a crisis victim, they harm not only the reputation of the victim, but also that of their news organization.
The publication is available here.
