"This publication [...] deals with the major ethical challenges facing journalists and other media practitioners in an environment in which social media has been assuming increasing importance and influence. By providing guidelines on how to deal with these challenges, this publication can serve as a practical guidebook for journalists and other media practitioners. In addition, this publication discusses the relationship between media ethics, law and freedom of expression. It presents different models of media regulation and gives examples of journalistic codes of ethics from around the world. In doing so, the publication puts the debate about media ethics in a broader context and provides an up-to-date framework to rethink media ethics for the media of today." (Foreword)