Kelly B. McBride (born 1966) is an American writer, teacher and commentator on

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Personal life

Kelly McBride earned a Bachelor of Journalism degree in 1988 from the

University of Missouri The University of Missouri (Mizzou, MU, or Missouri) is a public land-grant research university in Columbia, Missouri. It is Missouri's largest university and the flagship of the four-campus University of Missouri System. MU was founded in ...

School of Journalism, and a Master of Arts in religious studies in 2000 from

Gonzaga University Gonzaga University (GU) () is a private Jesuit university in Spokane, Washington. It is accredited by the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities. Founded in 1887 by Joseph Cataldo, an Italian-born priest and Jesuit missionary, the ...

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. She is a mother and is divorced.

Career

McBride worked as a reporter in the Pacific Northwest for 15 years before joining the non-profit

Poynter Institute The Poynter Institute for Media Studies is a non-profit journalism school and research organization in St. Petersburg, Florida, United States. The school is the owner of the ''Tampa Bay Times'' newspaper and the International Fact-Checking Netw ...

in St. Petersburg, Florida. Since 2002, she has published "Updates on ethical decision-making in newsrooms big and small" at poynter.org. As vice president of the Academic Programs of Poynter Institute, she also serves on Poynter's Board of Trustees. At Poynter she has headed the ''Ethics Department'' and the ''Reporting, Writing and Editing Department,'' and has directed Poynter's Sense-Making Project, an initiative exploring changes in

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, from "a profession for a few to a civic obligation of many", including the

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and effects of

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. In April 2020, she became

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's public editor through a partnership with

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and

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Publications

Books

McBride co-edited ''The New Ethics of Journalism: Principles for the 21st Century'', featuring 14 essays and a new code of ethics for journalists. In March 2014, she authored ''A Practical Approach to Journalism Ethics'' for the

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of the

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Selected articles

News sites including ''

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'', ''

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'', CNN,

and the BBC have quoted McBride's advice on journalistic ethics and have published her essays. * "When It's O.K. to Pay for a Story" (2015) * "How Should NPR Cover Itself?" (2009) * "Pubmedia leaders should seek 'creative ways' to explore country’s deep divisions" (2009) (commissioned by Editorial Integrity for Public Media: Principles, Policies, Practices) * "Rethinking rape coverage – Should anonymity be absolute" (2002)

References

External links

School for Journalism The Poynter Institute (non profit)
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