Pemaknaan Etika Jurnalisme Warga oleh Jurnalis Warga Tempo Witness di Wilayah Jawa Tengah

Abstract

Awareness of the importance of conveying phenomena that are around us is in line with proficiency in utilizing information technology to shape citizens like journalists. The ease with which citizens become like journalists awakens the intention of citizens to uphold the truth by becoming citizen journalists. However, various implementations of citizen journalism ethics that are difficult to implement are actually a challenge in itself. It even creates a temptation to apply citizen journalism ethics. These challenges and temptations diverted their original intention as citizen journalists. They do not comply with the code of ethics that applies when carrying out journalistic activities. This research aims to explore the interpretation of citizen journalism ethics by citizen journalists of Tempo Witness in the Central Java region, which is the region with the highest intensity of sending news reports. Qualitative approaches, phenomenological methods, and symbolic interaction theory serve to explore the motives, experiences, and agreements of citizen journalists in implementing citizen journalism ethics. The results showed that the three informants interpreted the ethical aspects of citizen journalism morality well, they maintained good manners and maintained the quality of news reports. However, two out of three informants did not apply citizen journalism ethics by accepting gifts from the sources, in the form of money and goods.

The Ethical Experience of Online Journalists in Avoiding Trial by the Press

“…The use of a phenomenological framework has also achieved transferability theory, as in the study by Bengtsson and Johansson (2020); Bradshaw (2021); Maharani and Pasandaran (2018); Soraya et al (2023); Syahri (2018); Tandoc and Takahashi (2018) who used a phenomenological approach to reveal the ethical experience and consciousness of journalists in implementing journalistic code of ethic in their journalistic activities. The transferability of phenomenological theory as used by previous studies means that the validity of using Edmund Husserl's phenomenological theory, as operationalized by Creswell and Poth (2017); Hamzah (2020); Moustakas (1994), can be epistemologically trusted to reveal the ethical experiences of online media journalists in avoiding trials by the press.…”

“…Five informants from online media journalists interpreted trial by the press regulations in institutional regulations as also a moral responsibility of their journalist profession, meaning that four informants understood the code of ethics from a philosophical perspective, namely moral guidelines for good and bad, which are the basis for someone to act with full awareness (Duncan & Keeble, 2022;Rachmawaty et al, 2022;Soraya et al, 2023;Ward, 2020). Five informants understood the responsibility to comply with the Journalistic Code of Ethics as a form of honor for their journalist profession; informant 2 said that compliance with the Journalistic Code of Ethics is to maintain the dignity of the profession.…”