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We Need to Think About the Ethics of True Crime

Subbu Vincent, director, of journalism and media ethics, interviewed by KUOW/NPR Radio Active.
Crime-related content, on both television and podcasts, is a very popular consumer media, and KUOW RadioActive podcasters, Alayna Ly, Colin Yuen, and Morgen White wanted to answer the big question: Is true crime ethical? They reached out to Subbu Vincent, director of journalism and media ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University for perspective.
 
Among other topics, Vincent talked about the importance for true-crime creators to explain how their content was made.
 
"...the content creators have to say about where they got the material from, why they decided to actually do it, and whether they’re making any disclosures about the people they interviewed."
 
Subbu Vincent, director, journalism and media ethics, interviewed by KUOW/NPR RadioActive.
Dec 8, 2022
Ethics
media,journalism