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Ethical guidelines for journalists within Ecuador’s journalistic culture

Abstract

This article presents the results relating to the ethical values of Ecuadorian journalists obtained from the Ecuadorian Journalistic Culture (CPE) project. The main objective of this study is to identify the traditional and common ethical guidelines that interviewees share, as these principles define the accountability, decisions, autonomy and professional exercise of journalists. Professional ethics is one of the main factors determining the level of professionalism of journalists and the professionalisation of journalism; media market regulation – based on the economic and business model of the media; media self-regulation (deontolotic codes); State intervention and the involvement of civil society in the communication process – citizens’ participation and access to information. This study conducted 31 in-depth interviews with active journalists from 6 national media outlets and a contextual analysis of Ecuador’s journalistic culture. The results show that journalists interviewed in Ecuador are classified in the journalistic context according to the perspectives proposed by Plaisance (2005) and Hanitzsch (2007) based on ethical ideologies, as eminently absolutist, tending to situationism and to a lesser extent to exceptionism.

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