The new edition of Journalism Ethics and Regulation gives a comprehensive guidance on these vital areas of journalistic practice and presents new materials on privacy on social media, ethical and regulatory issues around new methods of news gathering and funding, new regulation systems, including the impact of the Leveson Enquiry on regulation, and journalism ethics and regulation abroad.

1. What are ethics? 2. News: towards a definition 3. Morality of reporting 4. The good journalist 5. Truth, accuracy, objectivity and trust 6. Privacy and intrusion 7. Reputation 8. Gathering the new 9. Reporting the vulnerable 10. Deciding what to publish 11. Harm and offence 12. Professional practice 13. Regulation 14. History of print regulation in the 20th Century 15. History of Print Regulation in the 21st Century 16. History of broadcast regulation 17. Codes of conduct as a regulatory system 18. Press regulation systems in the UK and Ireland 19. Broadcast regulation systems in the UK and Ireland 20. The Internet and journalism ethics 21. The Experience Abroad Appendix 1: IPSO Editors' Code of Practice Appendix 2: NUJ Code of Conduct Appendix 3: Code of Practice for Press Council of Ireland Appendix 4: BBC Code of Ethics Appendix 5: Ofcom Broadcasting Code Appendix 6: Broadcast Authority of Ireland code Appendix 7: International Federation of Journalists Appendix 8: SPJ Code of Ethics Appendix 9: Addresses for regulatory bodies Appendix 10: Alliance of Independent Press Councils of Europe