Write about how you would handle such a situation if a source offered you a gift. For our example, you are a journalist at a local newspaper. There is a new coffee cafe that has opened in town, and they have sent you a big basket of coffee beans, 6 mugs, 12 valuable gift cards, and 24 pastries. Enclosed is a note from them, politely requesting you to write a favorable news report about them, and they hope their gift will lead you as a journalist to them. Should you accept the gift?
I refuse to accept the gift because in the performance of every journalist. Chance went wrong every step, every process, every working journalist must show responsibility with the right to freedom and ethics of the press. In the news the media have a responsibility to take into account two important reasons are Law and ethical
Although receiving gifts from an informant. It is something that most journalists. It is against the ethical principles It has argued that. How much should refuse gifts worth If the gift is worth a little money can be received as a gift, but at a high cost should return immediately The journalist must use and the common sense of the media is to serve society rather than hoping for personal gain.