ethics policy

You may remember reading in this space about Mike Albo, a New York Times freelancer who was suspended from writing his column after I reported on a lavish, all-expenses-paid junket he and several other journalists accepted. In the weeks since then, numerous people have commented on how I "got Mike...

In these lean times for journalists, the temptation to live large with an all-expenses-paid vacation and some high-grade swag is harder than ever to resist -- even if it means skirting the company ethics policy. Writers for Newsweek and The New York Times (NYT) were among the 150 guests who...