David Boeyink
Currently teaching:
Past academic positions
Part-time Journalism Instructor, Kentucky Wesleyan College, 1986-87; part-time Philosophy Instructor, Brescia College, 1983-87; Medical Ethics Teaching Assistant, Harvard College, 1978; Religious Ethics and Old Testament Teaching Fellow, Harvard Divinity School, 1974-75
Professional positions
Editorial Page Editor, Messenger-Inquirer (Owensboro, Ky.), 1978-87.
Publications
Articles published in Journal of Religious Ethics, Journal of Mass Media Ethics, Newspaper Research Journal, and Journalism Quarterly.
Professional organizations
Indiana University Faculty Colloquium on Excellence in Teaching, 1993; Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication; Association for Practical and Professional Ethics; Society of Professional Ethics.
Awards
Frederic Herman Lieber Distinguished Teaching Award, Indiana University, 1995; Gretchen Kemp Fellow, School of Journalism, 1991 and 2003; Brown Derby Teaching Award, SPJ, Indiana University, 1996; first place, editorial, 1987, 1980, 1979 and best column, 1979, Kentucky Press Association; first place, editorial writing, Cardinal States Chapter, Society of Professional Journalists, 1981.
Teaching and research areas
Ethics, reporting, editorial writing, college pedagogy.
Research Summary
Professor Boeyink's research focuses mainly on ethics and ethical decision making in journalism. Boeyink is currently finishing a research project that will explore ways journalism students think about objectivity and the effect journalism classes have on their conception of objectivity.
Recent publications:
- Making Hard Choices in Journalism Ethics: Cases and Practice, a journalism ethics textbook written with Sandra Borden, Routledge: 2010.
- "Reporting on Political Extremists in the United States: The Unabomber, the Ku Klux Klan, and the Militias." in Liberal Democracy and the Limits of Tolerance, Raphael Cohen-Almagor, ed. Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 2000.
- David E. Boeyink, "Codes and Culture at The Courier-Journal: Complexity in Ethical Decision Making," Journal of Mass Media Ethics (13:3) 1998: 165-182.
- David E. Boeyink, "A Search for Meaning in the Media," in Religion, Morality and the Professions in America. Bloomington, Ind.: The Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions, 1998.
On faculty since 1987.