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Associate professor Holly Stocking has contributed a chapter to The Handbook of Mass Media Ethics, edited by media ethicists Lee Wilkins and Cliff Christians.

The chapter, "Buddhist Moral Ethics: Intend No Harm, Intend to be of Benefit," lays out a framework for both media decision-making and scholarship based on Buddhist ethics.  The chapter offers guidance from a Buddhist ethical perspective for choosing careers in media, for conducting routine work in media and for dealing with ethical dilemmas in media. It offers suggestions for normative and descriptive studies based on this perspective.

The Handbook was undertaken to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Journal of Mass Media Ethics and is advertised as "required reading for scholars, graduate students, and researchers in media, mass communication, journalism, ethics, and related areas." The publisher is Routledge (New York and London, 2009).

Sandy Borden, Ph.D. ’97, also contributes a chapter, "Ethical Tensions in News Making: What Journalism has in Common with Other Professions," she co-authored with Peggy Bowers.

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