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New York Times Assistant Managing Editor Nicholas D. Kristof signs copies of his book,
“Thunder from the East: Portrait of a Rising Asia,” co-written with Sheryl WuDunn.
Speaker addresses
journalistic ethics
■ Nicholas Kristof of The New
York Times speaks at the
annual Ruhl Lecture
By Hank Hager
Oregon Daily Emerald
Ethical issues facing today’s jour
nalists, especially those living
abroad, are changing and some
times can become blurred, said
Nicholas Kristof, associate manag
ing editor for The New York Times.
More than 200 people packed the
Alumni Lounge at Gerlinger Hall to
hear the former Pulitzer Prize win
ner speak at the 2001 Ruhl Lecture,
an annual public speech sponsored
by the School of Journalism and
Communication. Kristof’s speech,
“Spies, Wars and Massacres: The
Ethical Dilemmas of a Foreign Cor
respondent,” focused on his life as a
journalist in China and some of the
many ethical issues he has faced.
“One of my messages is that what
we traditionally think about jour
nalism ethics is not what we think
of when we go abroad,” he said.
Kristof, who was the Beijing bu
reau chief for The New York Times
from 1988 to 1993, said the para
mount effort for journalists is to tell
the truth. But in a foreign country,
he said, the rules can sometimes be
different.
“One of the essential modern
principles of journalism is that if
someone says something negative
about someone, you want to get it on
record,” he said.
After an instance when a South
Korean source was arrested, Kristof
said he becam’e less likely to use
specific sources for his story.
Kristof said it became a moral
dilemma for him whether to use
sources who could be incarcerated
for what they told him.
Kristof has also faced situations
concerning ethical means in his
home country.
During the 2000 presidential
elections in the United States,
Kristof wrote a biographical series
about then-presidential hopeful
George W. Bush. During a conversa
tion with Carl Rove, Bush’s political
strategist, he accidentally taped a
discussion between Rove and Bush.
Kristof said he did not use the in
formation from the discussion be
cause he thought it would be a
breach of ethics. But, he said, he
might have if there had been sub
stantial information on the tape.
“If they had talked about bugging
Watergate, or doing dirty tricks to Al
Gore, I may have felt differently,” he
said.
Tim Gleason, dean of the School
of Journalism and Communication,
said Kristof was a wise choice to
speak at the University because of
his life as a journalist.
Kristof’s “experience makes him
suited to discuss the ethical views
of a foreign correspondent,” he said.
Kristof, who currently oversees
the Sunday edition of The New
York Times, won the Pulitzer Prize
award in 1990, along with his wife,
Sheryl WuDunn, for their coverage
of the Tiananmen Square democra
cy movement in China. They are the
only married couple to jointly win
the award.
University President Dave Frohn
mayer said he hopes those in atten
dance left with an understanding
that judgments about ethical mat
ters are not easy.
“The search for one universal
principle to answer every question
is very elusive, especially when the
stakes are very high,” he said.
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