Put more broadly: Journalists shouldn't bet on the outcome of news events they cover because betting raises the reasonable idea that they have a stake in how those news events turn out — or that they even might try to make the events take a particular course.
Welcoming the Mail group's decision to print regular corrections and clarifications, he suggested that every newspaper with a staff over more than 100 journalists should have an independent readers' editor.
But rather than cautioning Sanders against "suggesting the entire political process is unfair," journalists should more seriously consider where voters' concerns come from.
More immediately, panelists on Thursday suggested that pollsters, aggregators and journalists should spend more time emphasizing that surveys represent only a snapshot of public opinion at the time that they're taken, and that the uncertainty surrounding polling goes far beyond the stated margin of error.
Asked whether more MPs and even political journalists should publish their income tax returns, he said: "I think we are moving in that direction.
In this case, I would side with readers who say journalists should do more to protect the privacy of victims, and worry less about missing an opportunity to match the story for their own publication.
The New York Times veteran war reporter CJ Chivers, author of The Gun: the story of the AK47, says fellow journalists should be more honest about the debt they owe to Higgins' Brown Moses blog.
Instead, WHO says researchers, health officials, and journalists should use more neutral, generic terms, such as severe respiratory disease or novel neurologic syndrome.
Sure, journalists should do more of their homework, but Facebook employees or those at other tech companies can be fired for discussing work with reporters if they don't have PR approval.
"Journalists should be more courageous", he said.
