Read the scenario. A journalist researches a possible scheme by a financial services company to steal money from its clients. He has one source, a woman who lost all of the money that she had invested with the company. He also talks to competing firms, who say that the company in question has no ethics. With just this information, the journalist publishes a story accusing the company of stealing clients' money. Which part of the code of ethics set by the Society of Professional Journalists does the journalist most violate? keeping news separate from paid advertising seeking the truth and reporting news without bias minimizing harm by showing compassion being accurate and transparent

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Ray Mora

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28 June, 12:04

Read the scenario. A journalist researches a possible scheme by a financial services company to steal money from its clients. He has one source, a woman who lost all of the money that she had invested with the company. He also talks to competing firms, who say that the company in question has no ethics. With just this information, the journalist publishes a story accusing the company of stealing clients' money. Which part of the code of ethics set by the Society of Professional Journalists does the journalist most violate? keeping news separate from paid advertising seeking the truth and reporting news without bias minimizing harm by showing compassion being accurate and transparent

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Kylee Greer · Answer 1

I think it is the second one but i am not completely sure, sorry.

Orion Zamora · Answer 2

seeking the truth and reporting news without bias

Explanation:

He never spoke to the actual company, and only to those who are accusing the company, he should have talked with people that are in the other side of the story to see how it works or what happens when you only report one side of the story you are biased.