The Ethical Fundamentals of the Responsibility of the Journalist
The Ethical Fundamentals of the Responsibility of the Journalist

Summary/Abstract: The present text intends to analyze the ethical fundamentals of journalistic responsibility. The initiating premise is the necessity to know the ethical and philosophical aspects that generate explanations for professional ethics. The present approach starts from the idea that journalists need to acquire the necessary ethical expertise in order to understand the ethical structures that are the basis for defining the deontology of the media communicator, of ethical responsibility, and also for understanding the relation between the ethical and the juridical, between liberty and responsibility, between the control of personal actions and external manipulation – all in order to be able to make ethical decisions and to solve ethical dilemmas. These can contribute to a better understanding of the ethical responsibility of the journalist.

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