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...Pippert's background includes extensive assignments covering both domestic and foreign politics, including what he suggests is an inordinate number of sensitive stories. He cites his coverage of the plight of the Sioux Indians in South Dakota and the last two executions at Chicago's Cook County jail as formative experiences...
Confronting issues such as these has helped Pippert arrive at a definition of ethical reporting: "I think the job of the journalist is to pursue truth. It is simply the heart and core of the matter. The ethical journalist is a journalist committed to truth, who will be almost compelled to deal with issues of justice and peace...
...Pippert has approached journalistic truth in ways he says were criticized as unconventional. As UPI's Middle East bureau chief, he beefed up coverage of the West Bank, filling the wire with short, three-to-four paragraph dispatches about conditions in the controversial Israeli territory...
...mere publication of these stories, I feel, helped build a mosaic that, when taken together, communicated truth about life on the West Bank," Pippert writes in his IOP study group proposal...
...Pippert further argues that the political process stands to gain from ethical journalism. A firm believer in sabbaticals, he says that commonly accepted standards of his profession often damage the credibility of political reporting...