Media Mentions

Guadalupe Hayes-Mota, director, bioethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, says DEA numbers can be easily created or stolen to write fraudulent prescriptions.

"All of this is very decentralized, so it's really difficult for pharmacists to really look at a DEA number if it's real or not real," he said. "Having a more centralized system where they can access this information would be quite vital."

Guadalupe Hayes-Mota, director of bioethics, quoted by Pensacola News Journal.

Axios reports the number is even higher in D.C. (28%), Atlanta (26%), Los Angeles (23%) and New York (23%) marking a major shift in how people are using AI to seek connection and intimacy.

Quoted by Axios from an earlier article, Irina Raicu, director of the Internet ethics program said that these types of emotional ties to chatbots could weaken human relationships.

Irina Raicu, director, internet ethics, quoted by Axios.

Guardrails for News Headlining: Principles and Workflow lays out three principles for ethical headline writing and offers guidance for newsrooms that want to achieve them.

Headlines for major news stories are routinely scrutinized on social media, Vincent said, especially when news outlets revise headlines as stories develop.

Vincent acknowledged that headline writers are undoubtedly under pressure to entice readers. But readers, he said, seem to be concerned not just about obvious clickbait but also about headlines that set false expectations or fail to acknowledge a story’s nuances. 

Subbu Vincent, director, media and journalism ethics, quoted by Ethics and Journalism.

Are Trump’s tariffs ethical? By any measure, no — but here’s how they could be.

The Trump administration’s significant shift in U.S. tariff policy has roiled international markets with its severity and on-again-off-again nature. Recent legal challenges disrupted President Donald Trump’s trade strategy, so his administration has moved swiftly to overturn them.

Regardless of how the courts rule, there are serious doubts about whether such tariffs are ethical. Tariffs fail justice due to their inequities. They use people as a means to an end and erode the United States’ global standing.

Ann Skeet, Ethics Center senior director, leadership ethics, and Adina Ardelean, Ethics Center faculty scholar and teaching professor, economics at the Leavey School of Business published by MarketWatch.

Joan Harrington, a fellow at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, said board members are required to conduct a comparability analysis, where they consider the organization's complexity and fiscal health and executive pay at other private companies or nonprofits of a similar scale. 

As a board member, Harrington said, "you want maximum performance and to be able to attract the best people… but without crossing that line where it's hard for people to justify how someone could earn that much money."

"Nonprofit executives are not supposed to starve to serve social service organizations," she added. "We want them to be properly compensated so they stay in their jobs and do good."

Joan Harrington, Ethics Center fellow, quoted by San Francisco Chronicle.

The pressure on college athletes navigating a new, professional-like industry at a young age as millions of dollars in name, image and likeness (NIL) compensation after the NCAA antitrust settlement goes into effect July 1. Transfers of student athletes to more lucrative opportunities are becoming more common.

Ann Skeet, senior director of leadership ethics said all parties should be held to the same standards.

“I do think one of the realities of sport in this day and age is that people are making changes more often than they used to,” Skeet said. “How they communicate what their decision is, how much time they give people, how frequently they’re changing teams, all of those things should be considered, and I think it’s fair to hold the coaches and players to equal standards.”

“...players are having to trade off and think about what serves their own personal interests vs. what serves the team interests in ways that they haven’t had to consider in the past,” she said.

Ann Skeet, senior director, leadership ethics, quoted by the Associated Press. The article was syndicated across multiple news outlets across the U.S. and Canada including the following:

ABC News
Yahoo Sports
Houston Chronicle
AOL
Sacramento Bee
Press Democrat
Erie News Now
Halifax City News
Detroit News
Winnipeg Free Press
Newsday

The Sacramento Bee reports, "While Hagen's move to CPS HR Consulting doesn't violate state hiring laws, the contracting history between two public entities creates troubling optics," government ethics experts said.

"It's reasonable for the public to take a look and say, ‘That doesn't seem right,' " said John Pelissero, Ethics Center director of government ethics.

John Pelissero, director, government ethics, quoted by The Sacramento Bee (paywall), and republished on MSN.

The Trump company announced Monday a new business, Trump Mobile, that will offer cell service in a licensing deal and sell gold phones by the summer.

Irina Raicu, director internet ethics, commented on potential security concerns relating to the President's connection to the product.

"If this is seen as a signal of allegiance and support, I suspect if we end up having a product rather than an announcement, then we might start seeing those gold phones in congress, and the privacy and security implications at that point will be truly severe."

Irina Raicu, director, internet ethics, quoted by NBC Bay Area.